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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Milvus vs. RisingWave

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.64
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#245  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRisingWave Labs
Initial release201520192022
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62.3.4, January 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++, GoRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and Roles
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IgniteMilvusRisingWave
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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