DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Splunk

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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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

blazegraph.com

dgraph.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

dgraph.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Blazegraph

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Baidu

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2006

2016

2017

2018

2003

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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)

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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