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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servermilvus.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servermilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperDGraph LabsFatCloudMicrosoft
Initial release20172012201319892019
Current release2.7.6, April 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20222.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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SQLServer Flex @ STACKIT offers a managed version of SQL Server with adjustable CPU, RAM, storage amount and speed, in enterprise grade to perfectly match all application requirements. All services are 100% GDPR-compliant.Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageGoC#GoC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and StringsyesVector, 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlytables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BadgerFatDBInfluxDBMicrosoft SQL ServerMilvus
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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