DBMS > Blazegraph vs. CockroachDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. CockroachDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA

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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.

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Blazegraph

Cockroach Labs

Google

SAP

Initial release

2006

2015

2014

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

24.1.0, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

yes

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