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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmterminusdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsDataChemist Ltd.Yandex
Initial release20192004199320182019
Current release2.3.4, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4-1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesyesGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesJournaling StreamsActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
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-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access controlAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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MilvusMonetDBOpenQM infoalso called QMTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYDB
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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