DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Widely used RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Blazegraph

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

Transwarp

Initial release

2006

1983

2001

1980

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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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

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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