DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. InfluxDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. YugabyteDB
System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. InfluxDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. YugabyteDB
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| Name | Blazegraph Xexclude from comparison | Datastax Enterprise Xexclude from comparison | InfluxDB Xexclude from comparison | NebulaGraph Xexclude from comparison | YugabyteDB Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform. | DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics | A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS | High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary database model | Graph DBMS RDF store | Wide column store | Time Series DBMS | Graph DBMS | Relational DBMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary database models | Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Vector DBMS | Spatial DBMS  with GEO package | Document store Wide column store | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | blazegraph.com | www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise | www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview | github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula www.nebula-graph.io | www.yugabyte.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technical documentation | wiki.blazegraph.com | docs.datastax.com | docs.influxdata.com/influxdb | docs.nebula-graph.io | docs.yugabyte.com github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer | Blazegraph | DataStax | Vesoft Inc. | Yugabyte Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initial release | 2006 | 2011 | 2013 | 2019 | 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current release | 2.1.5, March 2019 | 6.8, April 2020 | 2.7.6, April 2024 | 2.19, September 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| License Commercial or Open Source | Open Source extended commercial license available | commercial | Open Source MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available | Open Source Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0 | Open Source Apache 2.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Implementation language | Java | Java | Go | C++ | C and C++ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server operating systems | Linux OS X Windows | Linux OS X | Linux OS X through Homebrew | Linux | Linux OS X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data scheme | schema-free | schema-free | schema-free | Strong typed schema | depending on used data model | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes RDF literal types | yes | Numeric data and Strings | yes | 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. | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary indexes | yes | yes | no | yes Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value. | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SQL Support of SQL | SPARQL is used as query language | SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL | SQL-like query language | SQL-like query language | yes, PostgreSQL compatible | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APIs and other access methods | Java API RESTful HTTP API SPARQL QUERY SPARQL UPDATE TinkerPop 3 | Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language) TinkerPop Gremlin with DSE Graph | HTTP API JSON over UDP | Browser interface console (shell) Cypher Query Language GO Object Graph Mapper Java Object Graph Mapper NGBatis ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-BootProprietary native API Python Object Graph Mapper Query language nGQL | JDBC YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supported programming languages | .Net C C++ Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby | C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby | .Net Clojure Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Lisp Perl PHP Python R Ruby Rust Scala | .Net C++ Go Java PHP Python | C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Rust Scala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server-side scripts Stored procedures | yes | no | no | user defined functions | yes sql, plpgsql, C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Triggers | no | yes | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | Sharding no "single point of failure" | Sharding in enterprise version only | Sharding | Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | yes | configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing | selectable replication factor in enterprise version only | Causal Clustering using Raft protocol | Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | no | yes | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration | Immediate Consistency Tunable Consistency consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation | Immediate Consistency | Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign keys Referential integrity | yes Relationships in Graphs | no | no | yes Relationships in graphs | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | ACID | no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations | no | ACID | Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes | yes using RocksDB | yes based on RocksDB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | yes Depending on used storage engine | yes | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User concepts Access control | Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty) | Access rights for users can be defined per object | simple rights management via user accounts | Role-based access control | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Blazegraph | Datastax Enterprise | InfluxDB | NebulaGraph | YugabyteDB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specific characteristics | DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to... » more | InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It... » more | NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,... » more | YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competitive advantages | Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache... » more | Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,... » more | NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host... » more | PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS.... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typical application scenarios | Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able... » more | IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available... » more | Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti... » more | Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key customers | Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and... » more | InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,... » more | Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Market metrics | Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top... » more | Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances » more | At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub... » more | 2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensing and pricing models | Annual subscription » more | Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on... » more | NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license. » more | Apache 2.0 license for the database » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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