DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Search engine

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

manual.manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Blazegraph

IBM

Manticore Software

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

1983

host version

2017

2004

2013

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

12.1, October 2016

6.0, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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