DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. Lovefield

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

blueflood.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hyprcubd.com (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Blazegraph

Rackspace

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2006

2013

2016

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

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