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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 transactionsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
milvus.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasedbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2016201920132020
Current release5.10, January 20222.4.4, May 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesno
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 infoTemporary tableyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MilvusNuoDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
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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