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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. TigerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBlazegraphSoftmotionsEsgynChris Davis
Initial release20062012201520062017
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, JavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresnoyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infolockingyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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