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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Dgraph vs. Milvus vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#242  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteatoti.iodgraph.iomilvus.iogithub.com/­torodb/­servervelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iodgraph.io/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperActiveViamDgraph Labs, Inc.8KdataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016201920162011
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++, GoJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 7 VMAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)nonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnonono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication
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atotiDgraphMilvusToroDBVelocityDB
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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