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DBMS > Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. TypeDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.commilvus.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasetypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.nuodb.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release2012201920132016
Current release7.1, August 20212.4.4, May 20242.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
More information provided by the system vendor
KineticaMilvusNuoDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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