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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.geomesa.orggriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperBlazegraphCCRi and othersToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2006201420132010
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.1, July 20245.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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