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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.gstore.cnspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBlazegraphGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2006201220162014
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.2, November 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedno

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