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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Coveo vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineVector DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.14
Rank#116  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.coveo.commilvus.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.coveo.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaCoveoAlex Kashirin
Initial release2016201220192020
Current release2.4.4, May 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreCoveoMilvusSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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