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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Hyprcubd vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Hyprcubd vs. NCache

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesServerless Time Series DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comgeode.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgeode.apache.org/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Hyprcubd, Inc.Alachisoft
Initial release2006200820022005
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20175.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodenooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definabletoken accessAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BlazegraphDrizzleGeodeHyprcubdNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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