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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Milvus vs. Ultipa

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitegriddb.netmilvus.iowww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperToshiba CorporationUltipa
Initial release201320192019
Current release5.1, August 20222.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampVector, Numeric and String
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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GridDBMilvusUltipa
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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