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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgquasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBlazegraphThomas MuellerCNRSquasardb
Initial release20062005201320092009
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.2.220, July 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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