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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperMicrosoftSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015201919922006
Current releaseV12.4.4, May 202417, July 20159.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJava plugins
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic locking
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchMilvusSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSolr
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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