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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. jBASE

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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.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.firebirdsql.org

galaxybase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Blazegraph

Firebird Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2006

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

1991

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

5.0.1, August 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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