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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Milvus vs. openGauss vs. YugabyteDB

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NameLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.leanxcale.commilvus.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperLeanXcaleHuawei and openGauss communityYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2015201920192017
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.0, March 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC, C++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough Apache DerbynoANSI SQL 2011yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
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 ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
LeanXcaleMilvusopenGaussYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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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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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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