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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. SQream DB vs. XTDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servermilvus.iosqream.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servermilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.sqream.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftSQream TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20071989201920172019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1SQL Server 2022, November 20222.3.4, January 20242022.1.6, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++, GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
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 integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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GridGainMicrosoft SQL ServerMilvusSQream DBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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