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DBMS > Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. RDFox vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. RDFox vs. SpaceTime

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.00
Rank#63  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.40
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#90  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#296  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#388  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
milvus.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.aimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesMireo
Initial release20062016201920172020
Current release5.10, January 20222.4.4, May 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRoles, resources, and access typesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
GraphiteHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MilvusRDFoxSpaceTime
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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