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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. EJDB vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbmilvus.iowww.monetdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncSoftmotionsMonetDB BVMireo
Initial release20152012201920042020
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.4.4, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Apache KylinEJDBMilvusMonetDBSpaceTime
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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