DBMS > Dgraph vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

milvus.io

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

quasardb

SAP, Sybase

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2019

2009

1987

1999

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

16.0

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

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++, Go

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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