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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-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 CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareMicrosoftParadigma Software
Initial release20062010201720161999
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.0, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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