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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 CouchDBLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational 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
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sybase, SAPinformationpartners gmbhTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20062010199320151987
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.0Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDmultiple readers, single writeryes
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.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configurednono
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-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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