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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Milvus vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbmilvus.ioquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGoogleQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2011201920142013
Current release1.23, February 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScript
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple password-based access control
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LevelDBMilvusQuestDBSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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