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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Milvus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.commilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlyanza.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.OracleYanzaYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20072019201120152001
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.3.4, January 202424.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++, GoJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
WindowsDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringoptionalnono
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP callsC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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GridGainMilvusOracle NoSQLYanzaYottaDB
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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