DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2006

2010

2018

2012

2021

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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