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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
RDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comrdf4j.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBlazegraphSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Rockset
Initial release2016200620042019
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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