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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. LeanXcale vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. LeanXcale vs. Titan

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.35
Rank#283  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBlazegraphLeanXcaleAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release200620152012
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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