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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

newdatabase.com

milvus.io

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.4.4, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role based authorization

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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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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