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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blazegraph vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgblazegraph.comwww.kinetica.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBlazegraphKineticaquasardb
Initial release2007200620122009
Current release11.2, August 20242.1.5, March 20197.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
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
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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 (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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