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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBlazegraphGoogleIBMSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20062017201720132014
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Active-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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