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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#276	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

milvus.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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