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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  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 searchesRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverSpark 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 DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#260  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.56
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioraima.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.raima.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRaima Inc.Apache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20191984201420171987
Current release2.3.4, January 202415, June 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoCScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes, 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.nono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationnouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MilvusRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSpark SQLSQream DBTransbase
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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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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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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