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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSRDF storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.geomesa.orgrdf4j.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBlazegraphCCRi and othersSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20062014200420061987
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.0, May 20249.6.1, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava pluginsyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layernoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedoptimistic lockingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
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 storagenoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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