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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBaiduAlex Kashirin
Initial release2013201820192020
Current release0.92.3.4, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BoltDBHugeGraphMilvusSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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