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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. XTDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteblazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablehive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20062015201220182019
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.1.3, April 20220.91.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions

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