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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperBlazegraphCognitectGoogleCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2006201220082014
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes, details hereyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsusing Google App Engineno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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