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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NebulaGraph vs. Neo4j vs. searchxml

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.esgyn.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
neo4j.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.nebula-graph.ioneo4j.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperEsgynMicrosoftVesoft Inc.Neo4j, Inc.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20152010201920072015
Current releaseV125.19, April 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++C++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemaschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes using Neo4j Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes, with always 3 replicas availableCausal Clustering using Raft protocolCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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EsgynDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureNebulaGraphNeo4jsearchxml
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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