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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司CCRi and othersBaiduSTS Soft SC
Initial release20172014201820192011
Current releaseNov 20, November 20214.0.5, February 20240.92.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaScalaJavaC++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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GalaxybaseGeoMesaHugeGraphMilvusSTSdb
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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