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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo vs. Milvus vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo vs. Milvus vs. TempoIQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCloud-based data warehousing serviceTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemachbase.commilvus.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoremachbase.com/­dbmsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaIBMMachbaseTempoIQ
Initial release20162014201320192012
Current releaseV8.0, August 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor
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 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 persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple authentication-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxMilvusTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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