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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA 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 storageA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelWide column storeVector DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2009201920182009
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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 indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnono
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HypertableMilvusSwayDBTinkerGraph
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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