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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websiteatoti.iowww.exasol.commilvus.ionsdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecturehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperActiveViamExasolSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2000201920171994
Current release2.3.4, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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atotiEXASOLMilvusNSDbSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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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