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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Milvus vs. PieCloudDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
milvus.iowww.openpie.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOpenPie
Initial release20232019
Current release1.0, March 20232.4.4, May 20242.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functions
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DragonflyMilvusPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus 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 advantagesHighly 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 scenariosRAG: 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 customersMilvus 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 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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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