DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

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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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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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	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

blazegraph.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

rocksdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Arcade Data

Blazegraph

Elastic

Facebook, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2021

2006

2010

2013

1999

Current release

September 2021

2.1.5, March 2019

8.6, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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