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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbmilvus.ioquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaquasardbRisingWave LabsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2019200920221987
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 20241.2, September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++RustC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBMilvusQuasardbRisingWaveTransbase
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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