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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Milvus vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Milvus vs. openGemini

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmilvus.iowww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbspotify.github.io/­heroicmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAlibabaSpotifyHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release2013201420192022
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, GoGo
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsnoyesVector, Numeric and StringInteger, Float, Boolean, 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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaGoC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAdministrators and common users accounts
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBBoltDBHeroicMilvusopenGemini
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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