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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputekylin.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekylin.apache.org/­docskairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncRockset
Initial release20162015201320192019
Current release3.1.0, July 20201.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringdynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeApache KylinKairosDBMilvusRockset
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly 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 modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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