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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. SQL.JS

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.67
Rank#102  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#33  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#90  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#247  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iomilvus.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2018201020192012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++, GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
.NETLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
DolphinDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMilvusSQL.JS
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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