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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
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 searchesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMicrosoftTobias Oetikerinformationpartners gmbhApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162019199920152014
Current release2.4.4, May 20241.8.0, 20221.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusRRDtoolsearchxmlSpark SQL
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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