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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata vs. TimescaleDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 nodesIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.tarantool.iowww.teradata.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.teradata.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperOracleVKTeradataTimescale
Initial release20192011200819842017
Current release2.3.4, January 202423.3, December 20232.10.0, May 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20192.13.0, November 2023
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)Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
macOS
hosted
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringoptionalstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIOpen binary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in paralleluser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding infoHashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith 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
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MilvusOracle NoSQLTarantoolTeradataTimescaleDB
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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