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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantterminusdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataChemist Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2006201020182001
Current release2.1.5, March 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangProlog, RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
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 databaseRole-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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