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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  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 scaleSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperBlazegraphGeoSpockMicrosoftMicrosoftProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2006201520101984
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.0, September 2019V1V12OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups

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