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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelVector DBMSVector DBMSRDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitemilvus.iowww.pinecone.iordf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release2019201920042015
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonJava
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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MilvusPineconeRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesamesearchxml
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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