DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. FatDB vs. H2GIS vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. FatDB vs. H2GIS vs. OpenTSDB

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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.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

FatCloud

CNRS

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2006

2008

2012

2013

2011

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

based on H2

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