DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Blazegraph

Kinetica

LeanXcale

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2006

2012

2015

2013

2006

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

7.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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