DBMS > Dgraph vs. Milvus vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Milvus vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph

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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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.54
Rank	#143	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#259	Overall
	#17	Search engines

Score	22.86
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.24
Rank	#121	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2019

2014

2017

Current release

2.0, January 2022

3.2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

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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TigerGraph is a native graph database, with massively parallel processing and fully...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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TigerGraph is the fastest and most scalable graph platform, powered by a native parallel...
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Typical application scenarios

Video media : video understanding, video deduplication. E-commerce and mobile applications...
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Anti Money Laundering Real-Time Fraud Detection Customer 360 Real-Time Personalized...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by over 1,000 enterprises, including Baidu, eBay, IKEA, LINE, Shopee,...
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Four out of the top five global banks use TigerGraph for real-time fraud detection....
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Market metrics

As of March 2022, 9.8k+ GitHub stars 1.4k+ Github forks 871k+ docker pulls 2k+ community...
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ANALYST RESEARCH Nov 2020: TigerGraph Named A Leader For Graph Data Platforms - TigerGraph...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Managed...
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Try TigerGraph for Free in the Cloud or On Prem https://www.tigergraph.com/get-tigergraph/...
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