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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. RDFox

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.iowww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2018201020192017
Current release0.92.4.4, May 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRoles, resources, and access types
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HugeGraphIBM CloudantMilvusRDFox
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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