DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

milvus.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2019

2009

2020

1998

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Erlang

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes, using Riak Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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