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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. RisingWave vs. TigerGraph

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iowww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBaiduRisingWave Labs
Initial release2018201920222017
Current release0.92.4.4, May 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and RolesRole-based access control
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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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