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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. ArangoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. ArangoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.In-memory caching systemA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Key-value storeVector DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comarangodb.comcachelot.iomilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.arangodb.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseArangoDB Inc.
Initial release20161999201220152019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.11.5, November 20232.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnoVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsJavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infosince version 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
noneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
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 based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAltibaseArangoDBCachelot.ioMilvus
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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