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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. Trafodion

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Well established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iowww.progress.com/­openedgetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationActian CorporationProgress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19791974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201919842014
Current releaseV12, November 202011.2, May 20222.3.4, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CC++, GoC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEIngresMilvusOpenEdgeTrafodion
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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