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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. KairosDB

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.h2gis.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Blazegraph

Google

CNRS

Initial release

2013

2006

2015

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.1.5, March 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on H2

simple password-based access control

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