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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Milvus vs. YDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 searchesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.commilvus.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncYandex
Initial release201820192019
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (YQL)
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 API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-passive shard replication
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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DolphinDBMilvusYDB
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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