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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. TiDB

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NameImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesWidely used in-process key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
milvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sadasengine.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.immudb.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCodenotaryOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSADAS s.r.l.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20202019199420062016
Current release1.2.3, April 20222.3.4, January 202418.1.40, May 20208.08.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for MilvusTiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageGoC++, GoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like syntaxnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ImmudbMilvusOracle Berkeley DBSadas EngineTiDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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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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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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