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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Milvus vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

milvus.io

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Rackspace

OpenPie

Initial release

2013

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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