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DBMS > BaseX vs. Milvus vs. QuestDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Milvus vs. QuestDB vs. Splunk

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 searchesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgmilvus.ioquestdb.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdquestdb.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBaseX GmbHQuestDB Technology IncSplunk Inc.
Initial release2007201920142003
Current release11.0, June 20242.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesVector, 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP 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 infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID for single-table writesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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BaseXMilvusQuestDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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