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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	2.90
Rank	#87	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

milvus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Altibase

Cambridge Semantics

Initial release

1999

2018

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.3, January 2021

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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