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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.geomesa.org

maxdb.sap.com

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

CCRi and others

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2018

2014

1984

2019

1984

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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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

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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