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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. WakandaDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.leanxcale.commilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperIBMLeanXcaleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Wakanda SAS
Initial release20142015201919842012
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough Apache Derbynoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBLeanXcaleMilvusOracle RdbWakandaDB
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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