DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. RavenDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. RavenDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. VoltDB

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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.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#100	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

geospock.com

ravendb.net

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

ravendb.net/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Blazegraph

GeoSpock

Hibernating Rhinos

Teradata

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2006

2010

2005

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.0, September 2019

5.4, July 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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