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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GraphDB vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SpaceTime

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.ai
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperDataStaxOntotextChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Mireo
Initial release20112000200620162020
Current release6.8, April 202010.4, October 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenoneSharding infoRound robinFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Datastax EnterpriseGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGraphiteHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SpaceTime
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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