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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. TigerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-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 CassandraDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comblueflood.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBlazegraphRackspaceAlachisoft
Initial release20062013201320052017
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.7.6, April 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesNumeric data and Stringspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnononoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nosimple rights management via user accountsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role-based access control
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BlazegraphBluefloodInfluxDBNCacheTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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