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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hazelcast

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/datastore

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Hazelcast

Initial release

2006

2004

2008

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

yes, details here

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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