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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. RethinkDB vs. Trafodion

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iorethinkdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdrethinkdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBActian CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201920092014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, May 20222.3.4, January 20242.4.1, August 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC++, GoC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMVCCyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BangdbIngresMilvusRethinkDBTrafodion
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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