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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Infobright vs. Neo4j vs. Sadas Engine vs. Titan

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbneo4j.comwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlneo4j.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Neo4j, Inc.SADAS s.r.l.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20002005200720062012
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.19, April 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyes infovia event handlernoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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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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