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

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 metricsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAnalytics Platform for Big DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewobjectbox.iowww.splunk.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.objectbox.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphObjectBox LimitedSplunk Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20062013201720032022
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.7.6, April 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)simple rights management via user accountsyesAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules
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BlazegraphInfluxDBObjectBoxSplunkSurrealDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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