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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Citus vs. InfluxDB vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.citusdata.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.citusdata.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperDGraph LabsSAP
Initial release20172010201320192010
Current release8.1, December 20182.7.6, April 20242.3.4, January 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoalso available as a cloud based service
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCGoC++, Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and StringsVector, 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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
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BadgerCitusInfluxDBMilvusSAP HANA
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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