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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. FatDB vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Milvus

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS for high security requirementsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.kinetica.comlinter.rumilvus.io
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationFatCloudKineticarelex.ru
Initial release20082012201219902019
Current release11.0, January 20217.1, August 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC#C, C++C and C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowsLinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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CubridFatDBKineticaLinterMilvus
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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