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DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Relational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.11
Rank#351  Overall
#49  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score23.95
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#394  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#157  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperArcade DataMicrosoftMireoOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20212016201920201998
Current releaseSeptember 20212.3.4, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoPL/SQL
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ArcadeDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusSpaceTimeTimesTen
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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