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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. Trafodion vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. Trafodion vs. Ultipa

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Well established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iotrafodion.apache.orgwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperActian CorporationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPUltipa
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201920142019
Current release11.2, May 20222.3.4, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
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
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Implementation languageGoCC++, GoC++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBIngresMilvusTrafodionUltipa
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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