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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 searchesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iorockset.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rockset.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMicrosoftRocksetApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162019201920142020
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic shardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone
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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 dataACIDnonono
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusRocksetSpark SQLSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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