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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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 scaleUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgeospock.comwww.harperdb.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperBlazegraphGeoSpockHarperDBMicrosoft
Initial release200620172016
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.0, September 20193.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptNode.jsC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1Transact SQL
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesyes

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