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

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

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 H2Time Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph 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
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.h2gis.orgopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphCNRSOpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20062013201420012009
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen 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
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate 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 dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infobased on H2nonono

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