DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Couchbase vs. Dgraph vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Couchbase vs. Dgraph vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph

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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.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.couchbase.com

dgraph.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Couchbase, Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Baidu

Initial release

2006

2011

2016

2008

2018

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Coprocessors in Java

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Planned for future releases

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users, roles and permissions

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