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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. NCache

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleCNRSAlachisoft
Initial release20062012201520132005
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infobased on H2no infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic single-row operationsACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BlazegraphFirebase Realtime DatabaseGoogle Cloud BigtableH2GISNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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