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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Milvus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlmilvus.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedSybase, SAPByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release201919932016
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
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.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBMilvusSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP 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 scenariosAs 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 customersChina 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 metricsMore 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 modelsCertificates 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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