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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.monetdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Blazegraph

MonetDB BV

informationpartners gmbh

Transwarp

Initial release

2006

2004

2015

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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