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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. SQream DB vs. TiDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.commilvus.iosqream.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.sqream.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperDatabricksHypertable Inc.SQream TechnologiesPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132009201920172016
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.4.4, May 20242022.1.6, December 20228.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatabricksHypertableMilvusSQream DBTiDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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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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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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