DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

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

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Blazegraph

Google

Manticore Software

Percona

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2006

2010

2017

2015

2004

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

6.0, February 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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