DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP IQ

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

memgraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Social network pages

Developer

Blazegraph

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Memgraph Ltd

Amazon Web Services

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2006

1983

2017

2021

1994

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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