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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. Milvus vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. Milvus vs. mSQL

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.leanxcale.commemgraph.commilvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storememgraph.com/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperIBMLeanXcaleMemgraph LtdHughes Technologies
Initial release20172015201720191994
Current release2.02.4.4, May 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infothrough Apache DerbynonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
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-standardUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM Db2 Event StoreLeanXcaleMemgraphMilvusmSQL infoMini SQL
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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RAG: 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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