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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Serverless Time Series DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRDF store
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteblazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehyprcubd.com (offline)rdf4j.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleHyprcubd, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2006200820172004
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
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 methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.token accessno

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