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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. GeoMesa

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperBlazegraphElasticFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCCRi and others
Initial release20062010201219832014
Current release2.1.5, March 20198.6, January 202319.4.1, November 20214.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infovia applicationsyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applicationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14depending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.Memcached and Redis integrationdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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