DBMS > Blazegraph vs. ClickHouse vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. ClickHouse vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. TiDB

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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.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

clickhouse.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

clickhouse.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Blazegraph

Clickhouse Inc.

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2016

2012

1983

2016

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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