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DBMS > Badger vs. Milvus vs. RRDtool vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Milvus vs. RRDtool vs. Splice Machine

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermilvus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDGraph LabsTobias OetikerSplice Machine
Initial release2017201919992014
Current release2.4.4, May 20241.8.0, 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++, GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and StringNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoJava
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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BadgerMilvusRRDtoolSplice Machine
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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