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DBMS > Apache Hive vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Milvus

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NameApache Hive  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score62.49
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#364  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.77
Rank#92  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgemilvus.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookFairCom Corporation
Initial release201219792019
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V3, October 20202.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesVector, 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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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Apache HiveFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEMilvus
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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