DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. ITTIA vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. ITTIA vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

SAP Advantage Database Server 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.

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ittia.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

ITTIA L.L.C.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2006

1983

2010

2007

1993

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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