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DBMS > EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comjsqldb.org (offline)www.kinetica.commilvus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperExasolKonrad von BackstromKineticaSimer Plaha
Initial release20002018201220192018
Current release0.8, December 20187.1, August 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++, GoScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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 indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsfunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLJSqlDbKineticaMilvusSwayDB
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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