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DBMS > Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.commilvus.iogithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperKineticaOpenAtom Foundation, previously TencentSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release201220191992
Current release7.1, August 20212.3.4, January 20242.5, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC, C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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KineticaMilvusOpenTenBaseSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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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