DBMS > BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. Pinecone

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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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Blazegraph

DolphinDB, Inc

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2007

2006

2018

2019

Current release

11.0, June 2024

2.1.5, March 2019

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

RDF literal types

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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