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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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)A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperBlazegraphSoftmotionsMicrosoftIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release20062012201020102012
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC.NET and CErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less.NEThostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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 languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP 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
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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