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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Well established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBlazegraphCommunity supported by Red HatActian CorporationMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release200620141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20162011
Current release2.1.5, March 201911.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres Replicatoryesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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