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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Immudb vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#307  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
milvus.ioquasar.aiswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.immudb.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperExasolCodenotaryquasardbSimer Plaha
Initial release20002020201920092018
Current release1.2.3, April 20222.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++, GoC++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like syntaxnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLImmudbMilvusQuasardbSwayDB
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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