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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. NSDb

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.ionsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDoltHub IncActian Corporation
Initial release20181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20192017
Current release11.2, May 20222.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++, GoJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesnono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Ingres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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DoltIngresMilvusNSDb
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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