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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Dgraph

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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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.83
Rank	#186	Overall
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.24
Rank	#153	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

dgraph.io

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

dgraph.io/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2016

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Planned for future releases

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Competitive advantages

Horizontally scalable transactional graph database with fast arbitrary-depth joins...
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