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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Coveo vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.83
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	2.27
Rank	#108	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	2.77
Rank	#91	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.coveo.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.coveo.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Altibase

Coveo

Initial release

1999

2012

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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