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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Blazegraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HugeGraph vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Blazegraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HugeGraph vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBlazegraphCommunity supported by Red HatBaiduTimescale
Initial release20152006201420182017
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.1.5, March 20190.92.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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