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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Coveo vs. HBase vs. Sphinx

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineWide column storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.coveo.comhbase.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.coveo.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphCoveoApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2006201220082001
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)granular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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