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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Milvus vs. OpenMLDB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

milvus.io

openmldb.ai

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

4 Paradigm Inc.

Qdrant

Initial release

2012

2019

2020

2021

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++, Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

restricted

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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