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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Vector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.commilvus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseFatCloudRockset
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 infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++C#C++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92no infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C#C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factoryes
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
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnonono
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAltibaseFatDBMilvusRockset
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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