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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL 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 searches

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

milvus.io

origodb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

origodb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Robert Friberg et al

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

1987

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.4, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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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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