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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Milvus vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

machbase.com/dbms

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Machbase

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2019

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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