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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Derby vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Derby vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.96
Rank#63  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#340  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBlazegraphApache Software FoundationBaidu
Initial release2006199720182019
Current release2.1.5, March 201910.17.1.0, November 20230.92.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesVector, 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BlazegraphDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBHugeGraphMilvus
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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