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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2019

2017

2014

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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