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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. RDFox vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

milvus.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Baidu

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2019

2017

1994

1987

Current release

0.9

2.3.4, January 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

replication via a shared file system

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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