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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlmilvus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaHypertable Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release200920192010
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLHypertableMilvusSiteWhere
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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