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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. Milvus vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegriddb.netmilvus.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.griddb.netmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBlazegraphGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Toshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20062012201320192014
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.1, August 20222.3.4, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampVector, 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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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