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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#94  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermilvus.iowww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release198320192019
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Boolean
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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FileMakerMilvusPinecone
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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