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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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on Blazegraph.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBlazegraphFoundationDBApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20062013201720142011
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.2.28, November 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, ScalaScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesno infosome layers support typingyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenone
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 consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nonono

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