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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. FatDB vs. KeyDB vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. FatDB vs. KeyDB vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
milvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.keydb.devmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseFatCloudEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20161999201220192019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++C#C++C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesVector, 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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92no infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C#C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyes infovia applicationsLuano
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple password-based access control and ACLRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAltibaseFatDBKeyDBMilvus
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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