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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. Milvus vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. Milvus vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#200  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score16.99
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#155  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.memcached.orgmilvus.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162008200320192010
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.6.29, June 20242.4.4, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++, GoJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, 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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBCProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanononoJava
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDrizzleMemcachedMilvusVoltDB
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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