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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 searchesWidely used in-process key-value storeIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.80
Rank#112  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#377  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iomilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­hanabytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSAPByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20102019199420102016
Current release2.3.4, January 202418.1.40, May 20202.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CC++, GoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systems.NETLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyesno
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
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 storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoyesno
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMilvusOracle Berkeley DBSAP HANATerarkDB
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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