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

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 searchesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.geomesa.orgmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCCRi and othersOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072014201919842001
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
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 VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesno
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending 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 rightsno
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BaseXGeoMesaMilvusOracle RdbSphinx
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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