DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.hawkular.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

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

Developer

Blazegraph

FairCom Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Hughes Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2006

1979

2014

1994

2016

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

V3, October 2020

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

ANSI SQL queries

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users and roles

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