DBMS > Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. JanusGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. JanusGraph

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Name

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

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Blazegraph

FatCloud

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2006

2013

2012

2017

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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