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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. JanusGraph vs. Milvus vs. RDFox vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. JanusGraph vs. Milvus vs. RDFox vs. Splunk

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteblazegraph.comjanusgraph.orgmilvus.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.janusgraph.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBlazegraphLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOxford Semantic TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20062017201920172003
Current release2.1.5, March 20190.6.3, February 20232.3.4, January 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
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)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users and roles
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BlazegraphJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanMilvusRDFoxSplunk
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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