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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FoundationDB vs. MaxDB vs. Milvus

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmaxdb.sap.commilvus.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationFoundationDBSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20121979201319842019
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V3, October 20206.2.28, November 20207.9.10.12, February 20242.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno infosome layers support typingyesVector, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infoANSI SQL queriessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++in SQL-layer onlyyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Linearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Apache DrillFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFoundationDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMilvus
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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