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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comfauna.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.fauna.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperBlazegraphFauna, Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release2006201420142017
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnonoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
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)Identity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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