DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Databend vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Databend vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Blazegraph

Databend Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2006

2021

1995

2019

1992

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.0.59, April 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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