DBMS > Coveo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

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Description

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Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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Spatial DBMS

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Website

www.coveo.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

milvus.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Coveo

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

1989

2019

2009

1987

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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