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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBlazegraphChris DavisRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhere
Initial release20062006199120102009
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesNumeric data onlyoptionalyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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