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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Derby vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of SQLite

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

db.apache.org/derby

opennms.github.io/newts

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation

OpenNMS Group

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2006

1997

2014

2008

2017

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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