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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Tkrzw

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelWide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.openpie.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheredbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.OpenPieSiteWhereMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2009201920102020
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.3.4, January 20242.1, January 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
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.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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HypertableMilvusPieCloudDBSiteWhereTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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