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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.commanticoresearch.commilvus.iosplicemachine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperManticore SoftwareSplice MachineAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162017201920142012
Current release6.0, February 20232.4.4, May 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, 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.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoJavayes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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BigchainDBManticore SearchMilvusSplice MachineTitan
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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