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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. Vitess vs. YDB

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iovitess.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdvitess.io/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphBaiduThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYandex
Initial release20062018201920132019
Current release2.1.5, March 20190.92.3.4, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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 indexnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoedges in graphnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Users, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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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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