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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
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.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes Technologies
Initial release2006200820161994
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20195.10, January 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, JavascriptC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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