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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebolt

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.75
Rank	#213	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	0.90
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#206	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.mcobject.com

www.firebolt.io

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.firebolt.io

Developer

Blazegraph

McObject

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Initial release

2006

2001

2020

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

depending on storage layer

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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)

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