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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperBlazegraphHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release20062016201320162017
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.10, January 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyesyes
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