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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperBlazegraphFirebird FoundationCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release200620132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172013
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.1, August 2024V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPSQLyes, in Luano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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