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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#185	Overall
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	20.66
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Blazegraph

Microsoft

Initial release

2006

2016

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

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

hosted

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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