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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Neo4j vs. Titan vs. Trino

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsneo4j.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsneo4j.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperMicrosoftNeo4j, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStaxTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2016200720122012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release5.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyesyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyes using Neo4j Fabricyes infovia pluggable storage backendsdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyesdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastdepending on connected data-source
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerSQL standard access control
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNeo4jTitanTrino
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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