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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS

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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

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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational 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	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.graphengine.io

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Blazegraph

Microsoft

CNRS

Initial release

2006

2013

2010

2013

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

.NET

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

based on H2

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

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on H2

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