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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. LevelDB vs. Milvus vs. RavenDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
ignite.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbmilvus.ioravendb.net
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperBaiduApache Software FoundationGoogleHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20182015201120192010
Current release0.9Apache Ignite 2.61.23, February 20212.3.4, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetC++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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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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