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DBMS > Milvus vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. WakandaDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsWidely used in-process key-value storeWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperIBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleWakanda SAS
Initial release2019200019942012
Current release2.3.4, January 202418.1.40, May 20202.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes
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MilvusNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMOracle Berkeley DBWakandaDB
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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