DBMS > Blazegraph vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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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.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Blazegraph

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

2007

2015

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Database file passwords

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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