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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.commilvus.iowww.pinecone.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperExasolPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000201920192017
Current release2.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access control
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EXASOLMilvusPineconeTigerGraph
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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