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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Milvus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OushuDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

Oushu

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2019

2011

1987

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

24.1, May 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

optional

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

C
C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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