DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hyprcubd vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hyprcubd vs. Lovefield

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hyprcubd.com (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Blazegraph

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2006

2008

2010

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

token access

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