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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Milvus vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.commilvus.iosqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2017201920172014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.4.4, May 20242022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++, GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnouser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes 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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GalaxybaseMilvusSQream DBTrafodion
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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