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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. KeyDB vs. Milvus vs. VoltDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.combangdb.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
milvus.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.keydb.devmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release19992012201920192010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.4.4, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C++C++, GoJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventspartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoLuanoJava
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)simple password-based access control and ACLRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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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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