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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA 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 KubernetesThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastoreazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.ionsdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecturehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftSAP, Sybase
Initial release20082015201920171987
Current releaseV12.3.4, January 202416.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyesVector, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)nonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EnginenononoJava and Transact-SQL
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Google Cloud DatastoreMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMilvusNSDbSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE
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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