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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comblazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerElasticMicrosoft
Initial release20122006200820102016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20128.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesTransact SQL
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes

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