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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#259	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

milvus.io

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2019

2020

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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