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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Kingbase vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.kingbase.com.cnmilvus.ioorigodb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Robert Friberg et alSimer Plaha
Initial release2000199920192009 infounder the name LiveDB2018
Current releaseV8.0, August 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++, GoC#Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and StringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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.noyesnono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.NetJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-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 ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on modelno
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 infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based authorizationno
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EXASOLKingbaseMilvusOrigoDBSwayDB
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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