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DBMS > FatDB vs. Milvus vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Milvus vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Vector DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudSTS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2012201920112013
Current release2.4.4, May 20244.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#C++, GoC#Go
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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FatDBMilvusSTSdbVitess
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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