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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2006

2010

2019

2011

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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