DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. Snowflake

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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

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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.15
Rank	#217	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#9	RDF stores

Score	114.13
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

blazegraph.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Blazegraph

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2006

2014

Current release

0.11.0, September 2022

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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