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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. Milvus vs. TimesTen vs. Yaacomo

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperHypertable Inc.GoogleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20092014201919982009
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.1.12, February 20172.3.4, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPL/SQL
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HypertableLovefieldMilvusTimesTenYaacomo
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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