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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Milvus vs. RDF4J vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Milvus vs. RDF4J vs. TimesTen

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.commilvus.iordf4j.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2004201920041998
Current release8.0, December 20232.4.4, May 2024Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphMilvusRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTimesTen
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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