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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comjsqldb.org (offline)milvus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperApache Software FoundationExasolKonrad von BackstromSimer Plaha
Initial release20142000201820192018
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.8, December 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoScala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsfunctions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixEXASOLJSqlDbMilvusSwayDB
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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