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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 searchesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitekylin.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Incinformationpartners gmbhAlex Kashirin
Initial release2015201920152020
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.3.4, January 20241.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writer
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Apache KylinMilvussearchxmlSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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