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Name

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Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.voltdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Oracle

VoltDB Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2019

2007

2010

2009

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

14.1, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Android
Linux
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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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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