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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iorockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBlazegraphCNRSRocksetByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20062013201920192016
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesVector, Numeric and Stringdynamic typingno
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yesnone
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 ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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BlazegraphH2GISMilvusRocksetTerarkDB
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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