DBMS > Blazegraph vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS 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.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Blazegraph

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2017

2014

2013

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

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 single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

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