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DBMS > AntDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Milvus vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Milvus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleDolphinDB 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.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.dolphindb.commilvus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.timescale.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedDolphinDB, IncTimescale
Initial release201820192017
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.3.4, January 20242.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBDolphinDBMilvusTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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