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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. HugeGraph vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. StarRocks

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSWide column storeVector 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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iowww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperBlazegraphBaiduHypertable Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20062018200920192020
Current release2.1.5, March 20190.90.9.8.11, March 20162.4.4, May 20243.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++, GoC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
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)Users, roles and permissionsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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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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