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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

milvus.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2019

1994

1984

2018

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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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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