DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GreptimeDB vs. MariaDB vs. RocksDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GreptimeDB vs. MariaDB vs. RocksDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

greptime.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

rocksdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.greptime.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Blazegraph

Greptime Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Facebook, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2006

2022

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2013

2011

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

11.3.2, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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