DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

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

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Sybase, SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2006

2008

1993

1987

Current release

1703

2.1.5, March 2019

4.1.3, July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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