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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgraphite.readthedocs.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperBlazegraphChris DavisHazelcastSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20062006200820142016
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoReplicated Mapyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noRole-based access controlyes

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