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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. SAP IQ

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Spatial extension of H2

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

blazegraph.com

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Blazegraph

CNRS

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2006

2013

1994

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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