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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Milvus

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.commilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iospotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SpotifyMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2015201420172019
Current release2.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, 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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BigObjectHeroicMemgraphMilvus
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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RAG: 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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