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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. XTDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2007201620192019
Current release10.7, August 20232.3.4, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono 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 datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BaseXMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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