DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb

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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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.hawkular.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Blazegraph

Event Store Limited

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2006

2012

2008

2014

2011

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

21.2, February 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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