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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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.Serverless Time Series DBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comhyprcubd.com (offline)kx.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcode.kx.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHyprcubd, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release200620082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20123.6, May 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++Goq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCgRPC (https)HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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, HTTPtoken accessrights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authentication
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BlazegraphDrizzleHyprcubdKdbMicrosoft Azure AI Search
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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