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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FatDB vs. Milvus

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

milvus.io

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FatCloud

Initial release

2000

2012

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

TDB Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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