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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#321	Overall
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	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

milvus.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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