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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.commilvus.ioorigodb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016199920192009 infounder the name LiveDB2001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.4.4, May 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC#C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and StringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based authorizationno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAltibaseMilvusOrigoDBSphinx
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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