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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. Sadas Engine vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelVector DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.pinecone.iowww.sadasengine.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2019201920062009
Current release2.3.4, January 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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MilvusPineconeSadas EngineTinkerGraph
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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