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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Milvus vs. YDB

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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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

milvus.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Yandex

Initial release

1991

2019

Current release

5.7

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-passive shard replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

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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

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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