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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  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 H2Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.64
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.h2gis.orgignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperBlazegraphCNRSApache Software FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release20062013201520102009
Current release2.1.5, March 2019Apache Ignite 2.6V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java, .NetC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLno
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yes (replicated cache)yes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
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 Graphsyesnoyesyes 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)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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infobased on H2Security Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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