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DBMS > BaseX vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeVector DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesmilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFatCloudMicrosoft
Initial release2007201220122019
Current release11.0, June 20242.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageJavaC#C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesVector, 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernooptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BaseXFatDBMicrosoft Azure Table StorageMilvus
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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