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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB vs. Stardog vs. TimesTen

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.compostgis.netwww.scylladb.comwww.stardog.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.compostgis.net/­documentationdocs.scylladb.comdocs.stardog.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBlazegraphScyllaDBStardog-UnionOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20062005201520101998
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.4.2, February 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20247.3.0, May 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes, Luauser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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