Likelihood to Recommend Like any NoSQL database, whether it's
MongoDB or not, it's best suited for unstructured data. It's also well suited for storing raw data before processing it and performing any type of ETL on the data.
Read full review Titan is definitely a good choice, but it has its learning curve. The documentation may lack in places, and you might have to muster answers from different sources and technologies. But at its core, it does the job of storing and querying graph databases really well. Remember that titan itself is not the whole component, but utilizes other technologies like cassandra, gremlin, tinkerpop, etc to do many other things, and each of them has a learning curve. I would recommend titan for a team, but not for a single person. For single developer, go with
Neo4j .
Read full review Pros Scalable Instantly and automatically serverless database for any large scale business. Quick access and response to data queries due to high speed in reading and writing data Create a powerful digital experience for your customers with real-time offers and agile access to DB with super-fast analysis and comparison for best recommendation Read full review Titan is really good for abstraction of underlying infrastructure. You can choose between different storage engine of your choice. Open source, backed by community, and free. Supports tinkerpop stack which is backed by apache. Uses gremlin for query language making the whole query structure standardized and open for extension if another graph database comes along in future. Read full review Cons Expensive, so be careful of the use case. We had a thought time migrating from traditional DBs to Cosmos. Azure should provide a seamless platform for the migration of data from on-premises to cloud. Read full review The community is lacking deep documentation. I had to spend many nights trying to figure many things on my own. As graph databases will grow popular, I am sure this will be improved. Not enough community support. Even in SO you might not find many questions. Though there are some users in SO who quickly answer graph database questions. Need more support. Would love an official docker image. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's efficient, easy to scale, and works. We do have to do a bit of administration, but less now than when we started with this a couple of years ago. Microsoft continues to improve its self-management capability.
Read full review Usability It has very good compatibility and adaptability with other APIs and developers can safely create new apps because it is compatible with various tools and can be easily managed and run under the cloud, and in terms of security, it is one of the best of its kind, which is very powerful and excellent.
Read full review Support Rating Microsoft is the best when it comes to after-sales support. They have a well-structured training and knowledge base portal that anyone can use. They are usually quick to respond to cases and are on point for on-call support. I have no complaints from a support standpoint. Pretty happy with the support.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Cosmos DB is unique in the industry as a true multi-model, cloud-native database engine that comes with solutions for geo-redundancy, multi-master writes, (globally!) low latency, and cost-effective hosting built in . I've yet to see anything else that even comes close to the power that Cosmos DB packs into its solution. The simplicity and tooling support are nice bonus features as well.
Read full review To be honest, titan is not as popular as
Neo4j , though they do the same thing. In my personal opinion, titan has lot of potential, but
Neo4j is easier to use. If the organization is big enough, it might choose titan because of its open source nature, and high scalability, but
Neo4j comes with a lot of enterprise and community support, better query, better documentation, better instructions, and is also backed by leading tech companies. But titan is very strong when you consider standards. Titan follows gremlin and tinkerpop, both of which will be huge in future as more graph database vendors join the market. If things go really well, maybe
Neo4j might have to support gremlin as well.
Read full review Return on Investment It's made managing raw data much easier It provides a way to maintain raw data at a low cost It's easy to massage the data Read full review Steep learning curve. Your engineers would have to spend lots of time learning different components before they feel comfortable. Have to plan ahead. Maybe this is the nature of graph databases, but I found it difficult to change my schemas after I had data in production. It is free, so time is the only resource you have to put in titan. Read full review ScreenShots