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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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.Spatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperBlazegraphCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS Group
Initial release20062013200820142009
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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