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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageVector DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20162009201320152019
Current release5.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 20162.7.6, April 2024V12.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++GoC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and StringsyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HypertableInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMilvus
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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