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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-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 DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroictrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBlazegraphDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifySTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20062016201420112014
Current release2.1.5, March 20194.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC#C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via Raftyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoPlanned for future releasesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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