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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV vs. Valentina Server

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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2019

2007

2009

1999

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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