DBMS > Milvus vs. OrientDB vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. OrientDB vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

milvus.io

orientdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

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

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Transwarp

Initial release

2019

2010

2015

2020

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Erlang

Triggers

Hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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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