DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

machbase.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

machbase.com/dbms

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Blazegraph

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Machbase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

1983

2013

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

yes

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

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

volatile and lookup table

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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