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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. IBM Db2 vs. Linter vs. Milvus vs. RDFox

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxRDBMS for high security requirementsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2linter.rumilvus.iowww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2milvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationIBMrelex.ruOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20081983 infohost version199020192017
Current release11.0, January 202112.1, October 20162.3.4, January 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC and C++C and C++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRoles, resources, and access types
More information provided by the system vendor
CubridIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2LinterMilvusRDFox
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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