DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. SQLite vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. SQLite vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.datomic.com

www.sqlite.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.datomic.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Blazegraph

Cognitect

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2006

2012

2000

2009

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optional

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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