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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

milvus.io

opennms.github.io/newts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

OpenNMS Group

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2019

2014

1987

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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