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DBMS > Badger vs. GraphDB vs. Milvus vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GraphDB vs. Milvus vs. SAP IQ

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.ontotext.commilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperDGraph LabsOntotextSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2017200020191994
Current release10.4, October 20232.4.4, May 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesnoyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Role based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BadgerGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMMilvusSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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