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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaDgraph Labs, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20162013201620142019
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesVector, 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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSynchronous replication via Raftyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDnono
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnono infoPlanned for future releasesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBoltDBDgraphHeroicMilvus
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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