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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.monetdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Blazegraph

Spotify

MonetDB BV

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Initial release

2006

2014

2004

1993

2011

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4-12

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

optional

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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