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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperquasardbApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20192009201420171987
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusQuasardbSpark SQLSQream DBTransbase
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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