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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-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 ServerHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yottadb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.xtdb.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBlazegraphMicrosoftOxford Semantic TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20062016201720192001
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.0, Septermber 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++ClojureC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C
Java
Clojure
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesreplication via a shared file systemyes, each node contains all datayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yesRoles, resources, and access typesUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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