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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Fauna vs. LevelDB vs. Milvus vs. TimesTen

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financefauna.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFauna, Inc.GoogleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20132014201120191998
Current release155851.23, February 20212.3.4, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnonoVector, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AxibaseFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBLevelDBMilvusTimesTen
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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