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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software FoundationJuxt Ltd.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20191994201420192009
Current release2.3.4, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, utilizing Spark Corenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication Servernoneyes, each node contains all dataSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
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 integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSpark SQLXTDB infoformerly named CruxYaacomo
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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