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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmanticoresearch.commilvus.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBManticore Software
Initial release2013201720192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, February 20232.4.4, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.Can index from XMLnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FoundationDBManticore SearchMilvusPostgres-XL
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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