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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comboilerbay.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessmilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20162002199220191992
Current release4.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.4, May 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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