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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. VelocityDB vs. YDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 searchesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iovelocitydb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVelocityDB IncYandex
Initial release20162019200920112019
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.2.0, December 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Any that supports .NETLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NetRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoErlangnono
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, using Riak SecurityBased on Windows AuthenticationAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusRiak KVVelocityDBYDB
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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