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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. DolphinDB vs. Milvus vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

DolphinDB 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 searches

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.dolphindb.com

milvus.io

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

DolphinDB, Inc

Ultipa

Initial release

2017

2018

2019

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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

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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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