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DBMS > Badger vs. Firebird vs. Milvus vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Firebird vs. Milvus vs. RDF4J

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.firebirdsql.orgmilvus.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsFirebird FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20192004
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++, GoJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, 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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded 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 datanoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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BadgerFirebirdMilvusRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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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