DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.geomesa.org

objectbox.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.objectbox.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Blazegraph

CCRi and others

ObjectBox Limited

SiteWhere

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2006

2014

2017

2010

1987

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

4.0.5, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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