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DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaMicrosoft
Initial release197120152019
Current releaseV12.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++, Go
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMilvus
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Highly 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 modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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