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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. Lovefield vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Lovefield vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. ToroDB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmilvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGoogleHughes Technologies8Kdata
Initial release19792014201919942016
Current releaseV3, October 20202.1.12, February 20172.3.4, January 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaScriptC++, GoCJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nonono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.noRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGELovefieldMilvusmSQL infoMini SQLToroDB
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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