DBMS > JanusGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine vs. Warp 10

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

SAP

Splice Machine

SenX

Initial release

2017

1989

2010

2014

2015

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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