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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 WhisperLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgraphite.readthedocs.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBlazegraphChris DavisSybase, SAPDataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20062006199320181987
Current release2.1.5, March 201911.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Journaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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