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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Titan

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBlazegraphFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20062013201020042012
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.2.28, November 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesno infosome layers support typingnoyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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