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DBMS > BaseX vs. DuckDB vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DuckDB vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgduckdb.orgmilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgduckdb.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBaseX GmbHSTS Soft SC
Initial release2007201820192011
Current release11.0, June 20241.0.0, June 20242.4.4, May 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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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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