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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017In-memory JavaScript DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousejanusgraph.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmilvus.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperIBMLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocket Software
Initial release20142017201420191985
Current release0.6.3, February 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++, GoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringoptional
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServernoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanLokiJSMilvusUniData,UniVerse
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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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