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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Neo4j vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Neo4j vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnjanusgraph.orgneo4j.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgneo4j.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperEsgynLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusNeo4j, Inc.SAP, SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20152017200719872014
Current release0.6.3, February 20235.20, May 202416.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsJava and Transact-SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handleryesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)yes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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EsgynDBJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanNeo4jSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESnowflake
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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