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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

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NameKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.94
Rank#205  Overall
#30  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#371  Overall
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
milvus.iowww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20192019200920062020
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.2.0, December 20228.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoErlangnono
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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KeyDBMilvusRiak KVSadas EngineSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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