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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. openGemini vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

milvus.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.opengemini.org/guide

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Hughes Technologies

Huawei and openGemini community

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1999

2019

1994

2022

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

4.4, October 2021

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Administrators and common users accounts

Role based authorization

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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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

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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