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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA 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.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRDF store
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20192018201620192004
Current release2.3, January 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Kerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleno infonot needed in graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Amazon DocumentDBAnzoGraph DBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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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