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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. JanusGraph vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. JanusGraph vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.janusgraph.orgsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBlazegraphLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSiteWhereDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20062017201020182017
Current release2.1.5, March 20190.6.3, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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