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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Titan

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 WhisperMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgraphite.readthedocs.iomanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBlazegraphChris DavisManticore SoftwareAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2006200620172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesNumeric data onlyInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Sockets
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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