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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hyprcubd vs. Milvus vs. mSQL

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceServerless Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hyprcubd.com (offline)milvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHyprcubd, Inc.Hughes Technologies
Initial release202320191994
Current release1.0, March 20232.3.4, January 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (https)RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the servernoyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationtoken accessRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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DragonflyHyprcubdMilvusmSQL infoMini SQL
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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