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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.ioblazegraph.comblueflood.iopostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BlazegraphRackspaceOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152006201320052017
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access types

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