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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. Solr

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasemilvus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010201920152006
Current releaseV122.3.4, January 20241.09.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes 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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyes infoon the application serverJava plugins
Triggersyesnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
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 integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writeroptimistic 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureMilvussearchxmlSolr
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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