DBMS > BaseX vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

basex.org

hive.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

milvus.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2007

2012

1992

2019

2021

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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