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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. OpenTSDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iomilvus.ioopentsdb.netdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122010201920112020
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.3.4, January 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++, GoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DrillGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMilvusOpenTSDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
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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