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DBMS > Milvus vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iospark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20192014201720171987
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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 indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in Pythonyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusSpark SQLSQream DBTigerGraphTransbase
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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