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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DataFS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

milvus.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2015

2018

2010

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

More information provided by the system vendor

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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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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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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