DBMS > BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

blazegraph.com

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Blazegraph

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Initial release

2015

2006

2004

2017

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SPARQL is used as query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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