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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase vs. SpaceTime

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablehbase.apache.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperBlazegraphExasolGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMireo
Initial release20062000201520082020
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesnooptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes

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