DBMS > Blazegraph vs. jBASE vs. LMDB vs. MariaDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. jBASE vs. LMDB vs. MariaDB vs. Realm

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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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

blazegraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

realm.io

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.lmdb.tech/doc

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

realm.io/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Symas

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2006

1991

2011

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

5.7

0.9.32, January 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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