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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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.

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#190	Overall
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	2.24
Rank	#108	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	12.37
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.ontotext.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Blazegraph

Ontotext

Microsoft

Initial release

2006

2000

2016

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

9.6, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

Named S4, Ontotext provides a semantic graph database based on GraphDB in the cloud.

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Constraint checking

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GraphDB Enterprise is a high-performance semantic repository created by Ontotext....
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Competitive advantages

GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked open data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers

BBC, Press Association, Financial Times, DK, Euromoney, The British Museum, Getty...
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Market metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

GraphDB-Free is free to use. SE and Enterprise are licensed per CPU-Core used. Perpetual...
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Conferences and events

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19 April 2021, SoccerNurds

Graph Database Market Global Enhancements and Growth Outlook 2021 to 2027 | IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, Neo4j, OrientDB, TIBCO, Franz, OpenLink Software, MarkLogic, TigerGraph, DataStax, Ontotext, Stardog, Cray, ArangoDB , Bitnine, Objectivity, Memgraph, Cambridge Semantics, Fluree, and Blazegraph. – NeighborWebSJ
11 April 2021, NeighborWebSJ

GPU Database Market 2021 Industry Size, Share, Growth and Top Companies Analysis | Kinetica, OmniSci, SQream, Neo4j, NVIDIA, Brytlyt, Blazegraph, BlazingDB, Zilliz, and Jedox. Moreover, the other prospective players in the GPU database market are HeteroDB, H2O.ai, FASTDATA.io, Fuzzy Logix, and Anaconda.
16 April 2021, SoccerNurds

GPU Database: Market 2021 also Industry is Booming Worldwide with Key Players | Neo4j, Brytlyt, Blazegraph, HeteroDB – SoccerNurds
16 April 2021, SoccerNurds

GPU Database Market 2021, by Types, Services, Application, Company Profiles, and Growth Opportunities to 2026 | Kinetica, OmniSci, SQream, Neo4j, NVIDIA, Brytlyt, Blazegraph – SoccerNurds
19 April 2021, SoccerNurds

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