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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Milvus vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server vs. Weaviate

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLObject-relational database and reports serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgmilvus.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSequoiadb Ltd.Paradigma SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20032019201319992019
Current release1.6.25, March 20242.3.4, January 20245.7.51.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageCC++, GoC++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONODBCGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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MemcachedMilvusSequoiadbValentina ServerWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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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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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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