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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webboilerbay.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgraphite.readthedocs.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperBlazegraphChris DavisBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2006200620022009
Current release2.1.5, March 20194.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesNumeric data onlyyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Sockets
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
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)nonono

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