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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Milvus vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgjanusgraph.orgmilvus.iowww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.janusgraph.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132017201920172019
Current release0.6.3, February 20232.3.4, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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H2GISJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanMilvusTigerGraphWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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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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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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