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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

milvus.io

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

doc.nuodb.com

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oushu

Initial release

2019

2013

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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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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