DBMS > Blazegraph vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. VoltDB

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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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

ravendb.net

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

ravendb.net/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Blazegraph

Hibernating Rhinos

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2006

2010

2009

1994

2010

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

5.4, July 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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)

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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