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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. OpenQM vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

milvus.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2016

2019

1993

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

3.4-12

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
Java
PHP

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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