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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB vs. XTDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Elastic, 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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftAlex KashirinJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19792016201920202019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.3.4, January 20240.5, April 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++Clojure
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Transact SQLnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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dBASEMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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