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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.commanticoresearch.commilvus.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDolphinDB, IncManticore SoftwareDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122018201720192018
Current release29.0.1, April 2024v2.00.4, January 20226.0, February 20232.3.4, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++, GoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, 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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 systemAdministrators, Users, GroupsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access control
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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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