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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.54
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	2.82
Rank	#95	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#382	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

milvus.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2019

2020

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.4.4, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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