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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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 DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteblazegraph.comdgraph.ioprometheus.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdgraph.io/­docsprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphDgraph Labs, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2006201620152009
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonono
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
TriggersnononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 releasesnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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