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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputephoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputephoenix.apache.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162014201520192015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V12.3.4, January 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsnonoErlang
Triggersnonononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeApache PhoenixMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMilvusRiak TS
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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