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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Ignite vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneignite.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesapacheignite.readme.io/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationProgress Software CorporationSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20172015201919841992
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62.3.4, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
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.yes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon NeptuneIgniteMilvusOpenEdgeSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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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