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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus vs. ObjectBox

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.leanxcale.commilvus.ioobjectbox.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockLeanXcaleObjectBox Limited
Initial release2014201520192017
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptC++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infothrough Apache Derbynono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLGeoSpockLeanXcaleMilvusObjectBox
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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