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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. Ignite

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignite.apache.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comspotify.github.io/­heroicapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphFatCloudGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SpotifyApache Software Foundation
Initial release20062012200420142015
Current release2.1.5, March 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C, Java, PythonJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerStandard with numerous extensionsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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