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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQream DB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsqream.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVOracleSQream Technologies
Initial release20062010200420112017
Current release2.1.5, March 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 202324.1, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesoptionalyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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