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DBMS > Milvus vs. Stardog vs. TempoIQ vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Stardog vs. TempoIQ vs. TypeDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.stardog.comtempoiq.com (offline)typedb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.stardog.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperStardog-UnionTempoIQVaticle
Initial release2019201020122016
Current release2.4.4, May 20247.3.0, May 20202.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlersyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolessimple authentication-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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MilvusStardogTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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