DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. YDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Esgyn

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Yandex

Initial release

2006

2015

1989

2011

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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