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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. Transbase

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncHypertable Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2015200920191987
Current release3.1.0, July 20200.9.8.11, March 20162.3.4, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standard
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Apache KylinHypertableMilvusTransbase
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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