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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogicmilvus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.MarkLogic Corp.quasardb
Initial release2005200120192009
Current release7.0.0, September 202311.0, December 20222.4.4, May 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binary
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.yes infosince Version 4.2yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL92noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, with Range Indexesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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GreenplumMarkLogicMilvusQuasardb
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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