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DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgignite.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgapacheignite.readme.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20152005201520142019
Current release7.0.0, September 2023Apache Ignite 2.62.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaScriptC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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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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