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DBMS > Hive vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgmilvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHughes TechnologiesRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122019199419932018
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.3.4, January 20244.4, October 20213.4-1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
HiveMilvusmSQL infoMini SQLOpenQM infoalso called QMTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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