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

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Name

Description

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

milvus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2019

1994

1987

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Memgraph 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 advantages

Business 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 scenarios

Graph 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 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

You 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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