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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. SwayDB vs. Tibero

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
milvus.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseswaydb.simer.auus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.nuodb.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Simer PlahaTmaxSoft
Initial release20162019201320182003
Current release5.10, January 20222.3.4, January 20246, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++, GoC++ScalaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocolAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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 infoTemporary tableyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MilvusNuoDBSwayDBTibero
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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