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System Properties Comparison Kuzu vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.kuzudb.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Cesbit

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2022

2019

2017

2018

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

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

Java
Scala

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

simple rights management via user accounts

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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