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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.50
Rank#166  Overall
#29  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#76  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#317  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score1.98
Rank#140  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBlazegraphFoundationDBThomas MuellerOxford Semantic TechnologiesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20062013200520172008
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20236.0, Septermber 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesno

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