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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebolt

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebolt

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhouse
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#183  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#213  Overall
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
Score0.84
Rank#206  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.firebolt.io
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.comdocs.firebolt.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBlazegraphFirebolt Analytics Inc.
Initial release201520062020
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SPARQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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