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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#247  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#87  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
www.kinetica.commilvus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduKinetica
Initial release201720122019
Current release1.2.2, February 20237.1, August 20212.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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