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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Milvus vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Milvus vs. SingleStore

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelWide column storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmilvus.iowww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersSpotifySingleStore Inc.
Initial release20162014201420192013
Current release5.0.1, July 20242.4.4, May 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++, GoC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole based access control and fine grained access rightsFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGeoMesaHeroicMilvusSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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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