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BlazeGraph

An RDF database supporting billions of edges on a single machine. Uses an alternative approach to RDF reification that enables property graph-like capabilities. Notable as the backend for Wikidata's query service.

Details

Vendor
SYSTAP
Type
RDF
Category
Established
Status
Inactive — Last release in 2019. Project largely dormant, though still used by Wikidata.
License
GPL-2.0
Query Languages
SPARQL, Gremlin

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Feature Scores

Community & Business

Active development
No updates in 6+ months
Commercial support
No commercial support
Live community
<25% of issues addressed
Open Source
Open source license
Pricing
No pricing information
Trendiness
Growing or stable trend

Deployment

Containerization
No container image
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Can embed in application
Testing in-memory version
No in-memory option

Platform

Operating on Linux
Open source (Linux compatible)
Operating on Windows
Open source (Windows compatible)
SaaS offering
Self-hosted only

Operations

Automatic updates
Manual updates only
Client side caching
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
No versioning
Live backups
No live backups

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
Data sharding supported
High-Availability
HA mechanisms available
Query Distribution
Distributed query execution
Replication support
Replication available

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Basic data types only
Logging/Auditing
Event logging supported
Object-Graph Mapper
No object mapper
Reactive programming
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
Docs current with latest version
Binary protocol
Binary protocol available
CLI
Command-line interface
GUI
Visual interface available

Data Model

Multi-database
Graph-only
Graph-native data
Native graph storage
REST API
REST endpoint available
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
No granular locking
Multiple isolation levels
Multiple isolation levels
Read committed transaction
Read committed available
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
No constraints
Schema support
Schema-less
Secondary indexes
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
Stored procedures supported
Triggers
No triggers
Authentication
No authentication
Authorization
No authorization
Data encryption
No encryption