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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Milvus vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Milvus vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbmilvus.ioopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20192011
Current release2.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsVector, Numeric and Stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBMilvusOpenTSDB
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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