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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.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 storageTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.commilvus.ioquasar.aiswaydb.simer.autrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperExasolquasardbSimer PlahaApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20002019200920182014
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeyesno
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 trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLMilvusQuasardbSwayDBTrafodion
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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