DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Hyprcubd vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Hyprcubd vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hyprcubd.com (offline)

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Blazegraph

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2008

1983

2013

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

token access

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