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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphaltibase.combangdb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comkairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDB
Initial release20161999201220132019
Current release2.1, December 2018v7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20211.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C, C++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesVector, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolnono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)simple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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AgensGraphAltibaseBangdbKairosDBMilvus
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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