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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#352  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftSybase, SAPWakanda SAS
Initial release20162016201919932012
Current release2.3.4, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++, GoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, 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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSWakandaDB
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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