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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebasex.orgblazegraph.comgeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwiki.blazegraph.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBlazegraphGeoSpockMicrosoftAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2007200620152008
Current release11.0, June 20242.1.5, March 20192.0, September 2019V15.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes 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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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