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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. gStore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Blazegraph

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2006

2016

2014

2005

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.2, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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