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DBMS > Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenMLDB vs. Trafodion vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenMLDB vs. Trafodion vs. Ultipa

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.ioopenmldb.aitrafodion.apache.orgwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­maintrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperActian Corporation4 Paradigm Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPUltipa
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019202020142019
Current release11.2, May 20222.3.4, January 20242024-2 February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoC++, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesFixed schemayes
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IngresMilvusOpenMLDBTrafodionUltipa
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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