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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. Prometheus vs. Yaacomo

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.exasol.commilvus.ioprometheus.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperExasolQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132000201920152009
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++, GoGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and StringNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBEXASOLMilvusPrometheusYaacomo
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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