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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Dgraph vs. Milvus

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financedgraph.iomilvus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdgraph.io/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationDgraph Labs, Inc.
Initial release1999201320162019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155852.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via Raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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AltibaseAxibaseDgraphMilvus
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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