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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. Newts

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
milvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.heavy.aimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseHEAVY.AI, Inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release20161999201620192014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.10, January 20222.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAltibaseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MilvusNewts
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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