DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

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

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

blazegraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

wiki.blazegraph.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Blazegraph

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

TempoIQ

Initial release

2015

2006

2014

2020

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

JSON types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple authentication-based access control

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