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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperBlazegraphMicrosoftTeradata
Initial release2006201320192005
Current release2.1.5, March 2019cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes
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.noyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RR packages
Triggersnonoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAzure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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