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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Milvus vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.dbase.commilvus.ioquestdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateQuestDB Technology IncOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release19792019201420152020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.4.4, May 20243.0.0, September 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesno
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 indexesyesnonorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsyes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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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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