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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbmilvus.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaAlex Kashirin
Initial release20192020
Current release2.3.4, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBMilvusSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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