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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Linter vs. Milvus vs. ScyllaDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

RDBMS for high security requirements

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.scylladb.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

relex.ru

ScyllaDB

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2008

1990

2019

2015

1999

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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