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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Blazegraph

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2006

2014

2018

2003

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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