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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. PlanetScale vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. PlanetScale vs. SiteWhere

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.ioplanetscale.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdplanetscale.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBaiduHypertable Inc.PlanetScaleSiteWhere
Initial release20182009201920202010
Current release0.90.9.8.11, March 20162.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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 controlUsers, roles and permissionsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
HugeGraphHypertableMilvusPlanetScaleSiteWhere
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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