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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitemilvus.ioopentsdb.netrdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release2019201120042015
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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MilvusOpenTSDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesamesearchxml
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 scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ 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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