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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. Fauna vs. Milvus

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.enterprisedb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfauna.commilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.fauna.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsEnterpriseDBElasticFauna, Inc.
Initial release20182005201020142019
Current release2.3, January 202114, December 20218.6, January 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaScalaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, 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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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AnzoGraph DBEDB PostgresElasticsearchFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBMilvus
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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