DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.gridgain.com

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Social network pages

Developer

Blazegraph

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

Initial release

2006

2007

2017

1980

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Free license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

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

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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