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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2019

2007

2010

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

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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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