DBMS > Blazegraph vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

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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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Baidu

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2006

2018

2010

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

0.9

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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