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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Milvus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTimescale
Initial release20132008200820192017
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20212.3.4, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC++, GoC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROVector, Numeric and Stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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