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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.tigergraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.tigergraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2016

2017

1987

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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