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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.49
Rank#175  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#143  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#266  Overall
#42  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.monetdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperMonetDB BVSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201920042013
Current release2.2, November 2022Jul2021-SP2, July 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RJavaScript
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
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MilvusMonetDBSequoiadb
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 scenariosVideo media : video understanding, video deduplication. E-commerce and mobile applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by over 1,000 enterprises, including Baidu, eBay, IKEA, LINE, Shopee,...
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Market metricsAs of February 2023, 20k+ GitHub stars 2M+ downloads and installations 1000+ 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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