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

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

geode.apache.org

milvus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

doc.chdb.io

geode.apache.org/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Altibase

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

1999

2016

2023

2002

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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