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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rdf4j.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2010

2004

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control

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