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DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. Tigris

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NameJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitejsqldb.org (offline)milvus.iowww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperKonrad von BackstromSTS Soft SCTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release201820192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20112022
Current release0.8, December 20182.4.4, May 202410 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresfunctions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing RocksDByesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
JSqlDbMilvusPostgres-XLSTSdbTigris
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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