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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Object-relational database and reports server

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Manticore Software

Paradigma Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2019

1999

2011

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

5.7.5

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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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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