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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. PostGIS vs. Speedb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelVector DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iopostgis.netwww.speedb.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperSpeedbTranswarp
Initial release201920052020
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infobased on PostgreSQLno
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MilvusPostGISSpeedbTranswarp ArgoDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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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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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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