DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Initial release

2006

1983

2014

2015

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

JSON types

Numeric data only

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.