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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOracles in-memory data grid solutionKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOracleSTS Soft SC
Initial release2008201920072011
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 202414.1, August 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJavaC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole based access control and fine grained access rightsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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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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