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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.geomesa.orgrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBlazegraphCCRi and othersRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20062014201420112014
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.0, May 20244.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC#C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layernonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.depending on storage layeryes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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