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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMicrosoftPerconaApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132016201920152014
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++, GoC++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnoJavaScriptno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesno
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusPercona Server for MongoDBSpark SQL
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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