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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

swaydb.simer.au

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2006

2010

2015

2018

2009

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

rights management via user accounts

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