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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunephoenix.apache.orgmilvus.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesphoenix.apache.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release20172014201920152020
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.4.4, May 20243.0.0, September 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Amazon NeptuneApache PhoenixMilvusRiak TSSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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