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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. Linter vs. Milvus vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

RDBMS for high security requirements

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

relex.ru

Initial release

2008

2010

1990

2019

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

C and C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

.NET

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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