DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

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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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

blazegraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

wiki.blazegraph.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Blazegraph

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2006

2021

2011

1984

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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