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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftRockset
Initial release2016201620192019
Current release2.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
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
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusRockset
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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