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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMMicrosoft
Initial release20121983 infohost version201620192023
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202112.1, October 20162.3.4, January 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesVector, Numeric and StringVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BangdbIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusTranswarp Hippo
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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