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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2019

1993

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++, Go

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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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DB-Engines blog posts

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Recent citations in the news

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