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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. InfluxDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Splunk

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
objectbox.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.objectbox.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBlazegraphVesoft Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSplunk Inc.
Initial release20062013201920172003
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyCausal Clustering using Raft protocolonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)simple rights management via user accountsRole-based access controlyesAccess rights for users and roles
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BlazegraphInfluxDBNebulaGraphObjectBoxSplunk
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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