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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Milvus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgduckdb.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlduckdb.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release201420181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019
Current release1.0.0, June 202411.2, May 20222.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++GoCC++, Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lesshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesVector, Numeric and String
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonotoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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AlaSQLDuckDBHyprcubdIngresMilvus
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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