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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogriddb.netgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.griddb.nethugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceToshiba CorporationBaiduSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20132013201820191992
Current release5.1, August 20220.92.3.4, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesVector, 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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDnoACID
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.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodGridDBHugeGraphMilvusSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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