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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Blazegraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. JanusGraph vs. Milvus

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  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 HBaseHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgejanusgraph.orgmilvus.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.janusgraph.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBlazegraphFairCom CorporationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20142006197920172019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.1.5, March 2019V3, October 20200.6.3, February 20232.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesVector, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infowhen using SQLyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancySecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Apache PhoenixBlazegraphFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanMilvus
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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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