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DBMS > BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDFox

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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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 searchesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML 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
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.geomesa.orgmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCCRi and othersOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20072014201919842017
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
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 nodesnonedepending on storage layerreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.depending on storage layeryesnoyes
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 rightsRoles, resources, and access types
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BaseXGeoMesaMilvusOracle RdbRDFox
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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