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DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comwww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.harperdb.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperArcade DataBlazegraphHarperDBMicrosoft
Initial release20212016200620172016
Current releaseSeptember 20212.1.5, March 20193.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaNode.jsC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoRDF literal typesyes infoJSON data 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1Transact SQL
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users and rolesyes

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