DBMS > Geode vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

milvus.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2002

2019

2009

2020

1987

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.3.4, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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