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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. HyperSQL vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.comhsqldb.orgmilvus.iowww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBMonetDB BV
Initial release20122012200120192004
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.7.2, June 20232.3.4, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLnoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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