DBMS > Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.dolphindb.com

geospock.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Blazegraph

DolphinDB, Inc

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Initial release

2006

2018

2013

1989

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.0, September 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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)

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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