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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Kdb vs. OpenEdge vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Kdb vs. OpenEdge vs. Quasardb

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.High performance Time Series DBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comkx.comwww.progress.com/­openedgequasar.ai
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcode.kx.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBlazegraphKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcProgress Software Corporationquasardb
Initial release20062000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319842009
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.6, May 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaqC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (q)yes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)rights management via user accountsUsers and groupsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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BlazegraphKdbOpenEdgeQuasardb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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