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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Lovefield vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

milvus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2014

2019

1992

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

2.4.4, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Using read-only observers

yes

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

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

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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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

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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