DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Cloudant vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Cloudant vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#190	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#78	Overall
	#15	Document stores

Score	86.79
Rank	#13	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	9.21
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	1.79
Rank	#117	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

cloudant.com

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

azure.microsoft.com/services/sql-data-warehouse

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.cloudant.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.microsoft.com/azure/sql-data-warehouse

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation info

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

Timescale

Initial release

2006

2010

2009

2016

2017

Current release

2.1.4, August 2016

10.4.10, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
MariaDB Managed Service: A customized MariaDB deployment fully managed by the experts at MariaDB in the cloud of your choice. Keeps you up to date with features, upgrades, hotfixes and security patches.

Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Transact SQL

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

yes

Master-slave replication with hot standby and reads on slaves info

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts info

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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TimescaleDB is the first open-source time-series database that combines the reliability,...
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Competitive advantages

High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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TimescaleDB is purpose-built to scale and handle time-series data workloads and is...
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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IoT, Industrial Machine, and Sensor Data Various industrial IoT use cases across...
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Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Altair Engineering Inc., Bloomberg, Comcast, Cray, Cree, DNSFilter, Laika, LaunchDarkly,...
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Market metrics

MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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1.8 million+ downloads, 7,500+ Github stars
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2 and Timescale License (TSL); Product matrix here ; information on pricing...
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News

Blazegraph 2.1.4 Release
29 August 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.2 Release
18 June 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.1 Release!
9 June 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.0 Release!
8 April 2016

Blazegraph 2.0.0 Release!
22 December 2015

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