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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSObject oriented DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.pinecone.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPinecone Systems, IncWakanda SAS
Initial release2014201920192012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.4.4, May 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
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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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