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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Milvus vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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 storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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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
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgmilvus.iosiridb.comswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.siridb.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCesbitSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20012019201720182018
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.4.4, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCScalaProlog, Rust
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-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple rights management via user accountsnoRole-based access control
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBMilvusSiriDBSwayDBTerminusDB 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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