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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-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 KubernetesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.ionsdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release20152019201720152020
Current releaseV12.4.4, May 20243.0.0, September 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJava, ScalaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchMilvusNSDbRiak TSSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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