DBMS > Blazegraph vs. gStore vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. gStore vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Blazegraph

SQream Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2006

2016

2017

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.2, November 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

ACID

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)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

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20 December 2015, insideHPC

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