DBMS > AntDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Milvus vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Milvus vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

brytlyt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

milvus.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Brytlyt

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2019

2014

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

As the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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