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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBlazegraphCCRi and othersMicrosoft
Initial release20122006201420162019
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.1.5, March 20194.0.5, February 20242.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layerSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono 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 datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcedepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Apache DrillBlazegraphGeoMesaMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvus
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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