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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.janusgraph.org

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2017

2019

2009

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java
Python

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

users and table-level permissions

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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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