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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. SiriDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iosiridb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.siridb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Actian CorporationCesbitAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201920172008
Current release12.0, July 20242.4.4, May 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple rights management via user accountsno
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BigObjectIngresMilvusSiriDBSpatiaLite
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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