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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Milvus vs. PostGIS

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgmilvus.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc
Initial release201520192005
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.3.4, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
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 integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache KylinMilvusPostGIS
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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