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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

milvus.io

www.sequoiadb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2019

2013

1999

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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