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DBMS > Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Milvus vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Milvus vs. PostGIS

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasemilvus.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9milvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperActian CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199120192005
Current release11.2, May 20225.72.3.4, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
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
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 availableyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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IngresjBASEMilvusPostGIS
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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