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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Milvus vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmilvus.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rocksdb.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdqdrant.tech/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperChris DavisQdrantFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2006201920212013
Current release2.4.4, May 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++, GoRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyVector, Numeric and StringNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsKey-based authenticationno
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GraphiteMilvusQdrantRocksDB
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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