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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MariaDB vs. searchxml

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.14
Rank#85  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score95.03
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarywww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBlazegraphDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
informationpartners gmbh
Initial release2006201820102009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 19952015
Current release2.1.5, March 2019v2.00.4, January 202211.3.2, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3yes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingseveral options for horizontal partitioning and Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginemultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infowith MEMORY storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Administrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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