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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Milvus vs. NSDb

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbjanusgraph.orgmilvus.ionsdb.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.janusgraph.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release2019201720192017
Current release0.6.3, February 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, 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 indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, HazelcastyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Amazon DocumentDBJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanMilvusNSDb
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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