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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Neo4j vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSpatial extension of H2A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesneo4j.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsCNRSMicrosoftNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release20182013201220072009
Current release2.3, January 20215.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infobased on H2noyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes using Neo4j Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes infobased on H2yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on H2Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)no
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AnzoGraph DBH2GISMicrosoft Azure Table StorageNeo4jTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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