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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Warp 10

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

Blazegraph

Google

SenX

Initial release

2013

2006

2008

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

RDF literal types

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

using Google App Engine

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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