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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Milvus vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

milvus.io

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2019

2014

2012

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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News

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