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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Oracle

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Rank	#187	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1346.66
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.blazegraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Blazegraph

Oracle

Initial release

2006

1980

Current release

2.1.4, August 2016

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

extended commercial license available

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

XML support info

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts info

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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News

Blazegraph 2.1.4 Release
29 August 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.2 Release
18 June 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.1 Release!
9 June 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.0 Release!
8 April 2016

Blazegraph 2.0.0 Release!
22 December 2015