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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Ingres vs. Milvus

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperSoftmotionsHypertable Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release201220091974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 201611.2, May 20222.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC++, Go
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesVector, Numeric and 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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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EJDBHypertableIngresMilvus
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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