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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Milvus vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storagePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitehsqldb.orgmilvus.iosiridb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.siridb.com
DeveloperCesbitSimer PlahaTeradata
Initial release20012019201720182005
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoNumeric datanoyes
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnononoR packages
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBMilvusSiriDBSwayDBTeradata Aster
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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