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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Neo4j vs. SpaceTime vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Neo4j vs. SpaceTime vs. Titan

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitebangdb.comneo4j.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comneo4j.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBNeo4j, Inc.MireoAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2012200720202012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia event handlernoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmyes using Neo4j FabricFixed-grid hypercubesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyCausal 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 graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes 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.yes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
More information provided by the system vendor
BangdbNeo4jSpaceTimeTitan
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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