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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Milvus vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.48
Rank	#136	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#205	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	131.21
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jbase.com

milvus.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.zumasys.com/jbase

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Zumasys

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1991

2019

2000

Current release

5.7

2.2, November 2022

3.42.0 (16 May 2023), May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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