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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.datomic.comhive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.datomic.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoft
Initial release2012201220162019
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.1.3, April 20222.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesVector, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceTransact SQLno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLDatomicHiveMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvus
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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