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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

milvus.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2007

1983

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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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