DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. Oracle vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. Oracle vs. TinkerGraph

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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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Widely used RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Blazegraph

Gigaspaces Technologies

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2006

2000

2007

1980

2009

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

15.5, September 2020

GridGain 8.5.1

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
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

Groovy
Java

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, event driven architecture

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

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

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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