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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Databricks vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.databricks.comwww.geomesa.orgmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDatabricksCCRi and othersOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20072013201420191984
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesVector, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Milvus 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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