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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. searchxml

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  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.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.cockroachlabs.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBlazegraphCockroach LabsGoogleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2006201520172015
Current release2.1.5, March 201924.1.0, May 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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