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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. VelocityDB

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.kinetica.commilvus.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.KineticaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201220192011
Current release7.1, August 20212.3.4, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, C++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsBased on Windows Authentication
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HyprcubdKineticaMilvusVelocityDB
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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