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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. openGemini vs. Sphinx

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.dolphindb.commilvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opengemini.org/­guidesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncHughes TechnologiesHuawei and openGemini communitySphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182019199420222001
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.4.4, May 20244.4, October 20211.1, July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoCGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoAdministrators and common users accountsno
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DolphinDBMilvusmSQL infoMini SQLopenGeminiSphinx
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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