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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Milvus vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Milvus vs. Transbase

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineCloud-based data warehousing serviceA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemilvus.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftIBMTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2010201420191987
Current release2.3.4, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++, GoC and C++
Server operating systems.NEThostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMilvusTransbase
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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