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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Altibase vs. Milvus vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Altibase vs. Milvus vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaltibase.commilvus.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseVelocityDB Inc
Initial release199920192011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.3.4, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnono
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsBased on Windows Authentication
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAltibaseMilvusVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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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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