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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.ioopentsdb.netwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradataWakanda SAS
Initial release20162019201120052012
Current release2.3.4, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoR packagesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno 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 dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusOpenTSDBTeradata AsterWakandaDB
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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