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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.citusdata.commilvus.ioquasar.aiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.citusdata.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaquasardbTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2010201920091987
Current release8.1, December 20182.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBCitusMilvusQuasardbTransbase
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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