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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Milvus vs. Virtuoso

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVirtuoso  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesVirtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.99
Rank#75  Overall
#13  Document stores
#4  Graph DBMS
#2  Native XML DBMS
#40  Relational DBMS
#2  RDF stores
#9  Search engines
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.commilvus.iovirtuoso.openlinksw.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.openlinksw.com/­virtuoso
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaAltibaseOpenLink Software
Initial release20162016199920191998
Current release2.1, December 2018v7.3, 2023, August 20232.4.4, May 20247.2.11, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes infoSQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI SQL-92noyes infoSQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnostored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infoVirtuoso PL
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesChain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsFine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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AgensGraphAlibaba Cloud Table StoreAltibaseMilvusVirtuoso
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Used for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Largest installed-base ​of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform...
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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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Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature...
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