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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. OpenMLDB vs. Trino

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.ioopenmldb.aitrino.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­maintrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoft4 Paradigm Inc.Trino Software Foundation
Initial release20152016201920202012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releaseV12.3.4, January 20242024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for MilvusStarburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
SQLAlchemy
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusOpenMLDBTrino
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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