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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Tkrzw

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comblazegraph.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122006201220102020
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 20193.1.3, April 20220.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesyesnono
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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 modenoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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