DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

wiki.blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developers.eventstore.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Arcade Data

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Initial release

2021

2006

2008

2012

2016

Current release

September 2021

2.1.5, March 2019

4.1.3, July 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

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 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in Graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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