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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.35
Rank#283  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.leanxcale.commilvus.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonLeanXcale
Initial release20162014201220152019
Current release2.1, December 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWS
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
AgensGraphAlaSQLAmazon CloudSearchLeanXcaleMilvus
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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