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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. chDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.eventstore.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

developers.eventstore.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2013

2023

2012

2019

Current release

15585

21.2, February 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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

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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

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