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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Milvus vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSVector DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgmilvus.iogithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.objectbox.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHObjectBox LimitedSiteWhere
Initial release2007201920172010
Current release11.2, August 20242.4.4, May 20244.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIHTTP REST
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
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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BaseXMilvusObjectBoxSiteWhere
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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