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

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSA 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 DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceBaiduActian CorporationSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release201320181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20191992
Current release0.911.2, May 20222.4.4, May 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
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 dateyesyesyesVector, 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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGroovy
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 proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodHugeGraphIngresMilvusSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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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