DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Blazegraph

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Initial release

2006

1992

2014

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

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