DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

maxdb.sap.com

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Blazegraph

Kyligence, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2006

2016

1984

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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