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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. StarRocks vs. Valentina Server

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquasar.aiwww.starrocks.iowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperOraclequasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Paradigma Software
Initial release20192011200920201999
Current release2.3.4, January 202423.3, December 20233.14.1, January 20242.5.3, March 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringoptionalyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MilvusOracle NoSQLQuasardbStarRocksValentina Server
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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