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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trino vs. VoltDB

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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.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

trino.io

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cubrid.org/manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

docs.voltdb.com

Social network pages

Developer

Blazegraph

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2006

2008

1989

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

11.0, January 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, depending on connected data-source

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

depending on connected data-source

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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