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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. mSQL vs. NebulaGraph vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitemilvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.nebula-graph.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesVesoft Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2019199420192008
Current release2.3.4, January 20244.4, October 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoRole-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusmSQL infoMini SQLNebulaGraphSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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