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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

milvus.io

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Baidu

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2019

2005

Current release

0.9

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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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