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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributors
Initial release20162016201220192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.1, December 201829.0.1, April 20242.4.4, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID infoMVCC
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AgensGraphAlibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DruidMilvusPostgres-XL
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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