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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. XTDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Spatial extension of H2Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score23.95
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#336  Overall
#48  Document stores
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphCNRSMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20062013201620192019
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.3.4, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++, GoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2Transact SQLnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infobased on H2yesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BlazegraphH2GISMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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