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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines 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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.net
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.intersystems.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBlazegraphFatCloudInterSystemsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20062012199719912005
Current release2.1.5, March 20192018.1.4, May 20205.73.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesoptionalyes
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.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
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
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#
C++
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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