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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Faircom DB vs. Milvus

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  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.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgbigobject.ioblazegraph.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbmilvus.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iowiki.blazegraph.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.BlazegraphFairCom Corporation
Initial release20142015200619792019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.1.5, March 2019V12, November 20202.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresVector, 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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuayesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixBigObjectBlazegraphFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEMilvus
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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