DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

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

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Blazegraph

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2006

1983

2009

1980

1984

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes, on a single node

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

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