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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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 searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iomilvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesByteDance, originally TerarkTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20102019199420162012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release2.3.4, January 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++, GoCC++Java
Server operating systems.NETLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on connected data-source
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
nonedepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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 storageyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonoSQL standard access control
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMilvusmSQL infoMini SQLTerarkDBTrino
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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