DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.teradata.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

quasardb

Teradata

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2010

2019

2009

1984

1999

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

integer and binary

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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