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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesWidely used in-process key-value storeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122018201919941987
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.3.4, January 202418.1.40, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon CloudSearchApache IoTDBMilvusOracle Berkeley DBTransbase
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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