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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#340  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBaiduSimer Plaha
Initial release201820192018
Current release0.92.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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HugeGraphMilvusSwayDB
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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