DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Dragonfly vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. YDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsBaiduYandex
Initial release2023201820192019
Current release1.0, March 20230.92.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
More information provided by the system vendor
DragonflyHugeGraphMilvusYDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
» more
Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
» more
Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
» more
Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
» more
Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
DragonflyHugeGraphMilvusYDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Vector databases
2 June 2023, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

DragonflyDB Announces $21m in New Funding and General Availability
21 March 2023, businesswire.com

DragonflyDB reels in $21M for its speedy in-memory database
21 March 2023, SiliconANGLE News

Dragonfly 1.0 Released For What Claims To Be The World's Fastest In-Memory Data Store
20 March 2023, Phoronix

Intel Linux Kernel Optimizations Show Huge Benefit For High Core Count Servers
29 March 2023, Phoronix

New Kubernetes Operator for Dragonfly In-Memory Datastore Now Available for Simplified Operations and Increased ...
18 April 2023, businesswire.com

provided by Google News

Critical Apache HugeGraph Flaw Let Attackers Execute Remote Code
23 April 2024, GBHackers

provided by Google News

How NVIDIA GPU Acceleration Supercharged Milvus Vector Database
26 March 2024, The New Stack

AI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr
31 January 2024, SitePoint

Milvus 2.4 Unveils Game-Changing Features for Enhanced Vector Search
20 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Zilliz Unveils Game-Changing Features for Vector Search
22 March 2024, Datanami

IBM watsonx.data’s integrated vector database: unify, prepare, and deliver your data for AI
9 April 2024, ibm.com

provided by Google News

Russian Court Sues Yandex CEO For LGBT Propaganda Case
30 April 2024, VOI.ID

Personal Data Protection Service Initiates Probe into Yandex.Go App’s Data Processing
10 August 2023, Civil Georgia

Data leak from Russian delivery app shows dining habits of the secret police
3 April 2022, The Verge

Yandex code leak: Why hack of ‘Russian Google’s’ ranking factors has spooked the SEO industry
1 February 2023, The Indian Express

Yandex Food Delivery Service Leak Revealed Personal Information of Russia's Secret Police
3 April 2022, Tech Times

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here