DBMS > Blazegraph vs. gStore vs. jBASE vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. gStore vs. jBASE vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

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

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

en.gstore.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Blazegraph

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Teradata

Initial release

2006

2016

1991

2005

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.2, November 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

optional

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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