DBMS > Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. RDF4J vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. RDF4J vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. YottaDB

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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.

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.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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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	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.dolphindb.com

rdf4j.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Blazegraph

DolphinDB, Inc

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Transwarp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2006

2018

2004

2001

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes

by using the Octo plugin

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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