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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.commilvus.ioquasar.aiswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­masterweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperExasolquasardbSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20002019200920182019
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binarynoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLMilvusQuasardbSwayDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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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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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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