DBMS > Badger vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

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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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

DGraph Labs

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2006

2010

2015

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 database

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