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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

milvus.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2004

2019

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.4.4, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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