DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Netezza vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Netezza 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.

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

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	10.18
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

milvus.io

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Blazegraph

Microsoft

IBM

SAP

Initial release

2006

2016

2019

2000

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

included in appliance

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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