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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Blazegraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

blazegraph.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Blazegraph

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2006

2013

2011

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

2.1.5, March 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

simple password-based access control

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