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DBMS > AntDB vs. Milvus vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Milvus vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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 searchesPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlmilvus.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedTeradata
Initial release20192005
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.noyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoR packages
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBMilvusTeradata Aster
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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