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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. NSDb vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

nsdb.io/Architecture

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2019

2017

2014

2012

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

Java, Scala

C++, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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