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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. RisingWave

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iomilvus.ionsdb.iowww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperMicrosoftRisingWave Labs
Initial release2010201920172022
Current release2.4.4, May 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++, GoJava, ScalaRust
Server operating systems.NETLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 storageyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and Roles
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMilvusNSDbRisingWave
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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