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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Transbase vs. Ultipa

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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 resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

blazegraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Blazegraph

Transaction Software GmbH

Ultipa

Initial release

2016

2006

1987

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

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

yes

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.

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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