DBMS > Coveo vs. DataFS vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. DataFS vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.coveo.com

newdatabase.com

milvus.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Coveo

Mobiland AG

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2018

2019

2015

2020

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.4.4, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Windows-Profile

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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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