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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Kdb vs. Milvus vs. Newts

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgeospock.comkx.commilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcode.kx.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperBlazegraphGeoSpockKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenNMS Group
Initial release20062000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192014
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.0, September 20193.6, May 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptqC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesVector, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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BlazegraphGeoSpockKdbMilvusNewts
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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