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DBMS > Ingres vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. Trafodion

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  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 searchesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperActian CorporationOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201920152014
Current release11.2, May 20222.3.4, January 20243.0.0, September 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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 indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorselectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes 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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IngresMilvusRiak TSTrafodion
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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