DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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.

Description

High-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 scale

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

geospock.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Blazegraph

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2006

1989

2017

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

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