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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financemilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Splice Machine
Initial release19992013201919842014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155852.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 20213.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
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 integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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AltibaseAxibaseMilvusOracle RdbSplice Machine
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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