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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

milvus.io

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2019

1984

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.3.4, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

close to SQL 92

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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