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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Coveo vs. Firebird vs. HyperSQL vs. Milvus

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.firebirdsql.orghsqldb.orgmilvus.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.coveo.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCoveoFirebird Foundation
Initial release201220122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20012019
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, January 20242.7.2, June 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedhybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidCoveoFirebirdHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBMilvus
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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