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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. Milvus

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.18
Rank#311  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.17
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score2.90
Rank#87  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.cockroachlabs.commilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCockroach Labs
Initial release201320152019
Current release1558524.1.0, May 20242.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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