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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblazegraph.comgeospock.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBlazegraphGeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release200620072014
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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 indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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