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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. Manticore Search

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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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

blazegraph.com

www.datomic.com

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.datomic.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Blazegraph

Cognitect

Manticore Software

Initial release

2006

2012

2017

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.0.6735, June 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

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

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