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DBMS > Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. SpatiaLite

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iowww.progress.com/­openedgewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperActian CorporationProgress Software CorporationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201919842008
Current release11.2, May 20222.4.4, May 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and groupsno
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IngresMilvusOpenEdgeSpatiaLite
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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