DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

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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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.firebirdsql.org

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Blazegraph

Firebird Foundation

Manticore Software

SAP

Initial release

2006

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

5.0.0, January 2024

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

yes

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