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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. XTDB

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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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2006

1999

2016

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

V8.0, August 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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