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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. TerminusDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBlazegraphGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2006200420082018
Current release2.1.5, March 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole-based access control

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