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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesmilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaDolphinDB, IncSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release2018201420122019
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnooptimistic lockingno
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBDolphinDBHeroicMicrosoft Azure Table StorageMilvus
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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