DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. GridDB vs. Milvus vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. GridDB vs. Milvus vs. Spark SQL

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational 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
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphblazegraph.comgriddb.netmilvus.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.griddb.netmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.BlazegraphToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162006201320192014
Current release2.1, December 20182.1.5, March 20195.1, August 20222.3.4, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageCJavaC++C++, GoScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampVector, 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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at container levelnono
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
AgensGraphBlazegraphGridDBMilvusSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
» more
Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
» more
Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
» more
Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
» more
Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
» more
RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
» more
Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
» more
Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
» more
Market metricsGitHub trending repository
» more
As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
» more
Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
AgensGraphBlazegraphGridDBMilvusSpark SQL
DB-Engines blog posts

Vector databases
2 June 2023, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Graph DBMS Performance Comparison AgensGraph vs. Neo4j
29 June 2017, Business Wire

Bitnine Releases AgensGraph 2.1, the Multi-model Graph Database Optimized for the Legacy Environment
29 January 2019, Business Wire

Bitnine: The Newly Revealed 'AI Teacher' Powered by Graph Database Delivers Hyper-Personalized Learning ...
25 March 2019, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?
5 March 2018, ZDNet

Harnessing GPUs Delivers a Big Speedup for Graph Analytics
15 December 2015, Datanami

This AI Paper Introduces A Comprehensive RDF Dataset With Over 26 Billion Triples Covering Scholarly Data Across All Scientific Disciplines
19 August 2023, MarkTechPost

Representation Learning on RDF* and LPG Knowledge Graphs
24 September 2020, Towards Data Science

Faster with GPUs: 5 turbocharged databases
26 September 2016, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

General Availability of GridDB® 5.5 Enterprise Edition ~Enhancing the efficiency of IoT system development and ...
16 January 2024, global.toshiba

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB
8 April 2021, The Register

GridDB Use case Large-scale high-speed processing of smart meter data following the deregulation of electrical power ...
1 November 2020, global.toshiba

Toshiba's Distributed Database GridDB(R) Now Features Scale-Out and Scale-Up combo for Petabyte-scale Data ...
3 December 2019, global.toshiba

General Availability of GridDB 5.1 Enterprise Edition ~ Continuous database usage in the event of data center failure ...
19 August 2022, global.toshiba

provided by Google News

What Is Milvus Vector Database?
6 October 2023, The New Stack

Zilliz Unveils Game-Changing Features for Vector Search
22 March 2024, Datanami

AI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr
31 January 2024, SitePoint

Milvus 2.4 Unveils Game-Changing Features for Enhanced Vector Search
20 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

IBM watsonx.data’s integrated vector database: unify, prepare, and deliver your data for AI
9 April 2024, ibm.com

provided by Google News

Use Amazon Athena with Spark SQL for your open-source transactional table formats | Amazon Web Services
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop
3 April 2024, InfoWorld

Cracking the Apache Spark Interview: 80+ Top Questions and Answers for 2024
1 April 2024, Simplilearn

Performant IPv4 Range Spark Joins | by Jean-Claude Cote
24 January 2024, Towards Data Science

Run Apache Hive workloads using Spark SQL with Amazon EMR on EKS | Amazon Web Services
18 October 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here