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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.An embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBlazegraphSpotifyEmbarcadero
Initial release20062013201419842014
Current release2.1.5, March 2019InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyesno
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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