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DBMS > Memgraph vs. Milvus vs. SAP IQ vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Milvus vs. SAP IQ vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitememgraph.commilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmltrafodion.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172019199420141987
Current release2.3.4, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 20192.3.0, February 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
MemgraphMilvusSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTrafodionTransbase
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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RAG: 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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