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DBMS > Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. SurrealDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.77
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.17
Rank#81  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#183  Overall
#31  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.pinecone.iosurrealdb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201920192022
Current release2.4.4, May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoRust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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