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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. Milvus

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  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.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.datomic.comhive.apache.orgmilvus.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.datomic.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBlazegraphCognitectApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20122006201220122019
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.1.5, March 20191.0.6735, June 20233.1.3, April 20222.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, ClojureJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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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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