DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle vs. Rockset

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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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.gridgain.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/database

rockset.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Blazegraph

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

Oracle

Rockset

Initial release

2006

2007

2018

1980

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

2023.3, June 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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