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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comblazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­filemakersphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122006201219832001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 201919.4.1, November 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC#C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#PHPC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infovia applicationsyesno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infovia applicationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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 mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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