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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Milvus vs. QuestDB

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.97
Rank#189  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.82
Rank#65  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisemilvus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.datastax.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationDataStaxQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2008201120192014
Current release11.0, January 20216.8, April 20202.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaC++, GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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CubridDatastax EnterpriseMilvusQuestDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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