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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. Milvus vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. Milvus vs. SpaceTime

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Vector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgatoti.iomilvus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.atoti.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActiveViamFatCloudMireo
Initial release2014201220192020
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)no infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
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AlaSQLatotiFatDBMilvusSpaceTime
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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