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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Graphite vs. Milvus vs. YugabyteDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmilvus.iowww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergraphite.readthedocs.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperDGraph LabsChris DavisYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2017200620192017
Current release2.4.4, May 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for MilvusYugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageGoPythonC++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BadgerGraphiteMilvusYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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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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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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