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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Pinot vs. Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. TempoIQ

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphpinot.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iomilvus.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftTempoIQ
Initial release20162015201020192012
Current release2.1, December 20181.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageCJava.NET and CC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher.NETLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple authentication-based access control
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AgensGraphApache PinotGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMilvusTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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