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DBMS > Graphite vs. Milvus vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Milvus vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmilvus.iowww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperChris DavisRisingWave LabsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2006201920221987
Current release2.4.4, May 20241.2, September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, GoRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyVector, Numeric and StringStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
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 controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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