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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Geode vs. Milvus

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dolphindb.comgeode.apache.orgmilvus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAltibaseDolphinDB, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release19992016201820022019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023v2.00.4, January 20221.1, February 20172.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights per client and object definableRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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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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