DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. YDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sqlite.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Blazegraph

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yandex

Initial release

2006

2014

1994

2000

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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