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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformWell established RDBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgalaxybase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBlazegraphChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Actian CorporationApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release200620171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142014
Current release2.1.5, March 2019Nov 20, November 202111.2, May 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaCScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined procedures and functionsyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres Replicatornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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