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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaltibase.comboilerbay.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbmilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseBoiler Bay Inc.Google
Initial release1999200220112019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.01.23, February 20212.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoVector, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBAltibaseInfinityDBLevelDBMilvus
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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