DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Milvus vs. Qdrant vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Qdrant vs. Weaviate

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelVector DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.02
Rank#90  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.69
Rank#136  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.65
Rank#138  Overall
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitemilvus.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdqdrant.tech/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperQdrantWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201920212019
Current release2.4.4, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoRustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replicationyes
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
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsKey-based authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusQdrantWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
» more
Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
» more
Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
» more
Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
» more
Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
» more
As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
» more
Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
» more
All companies that have data. ​
» more
Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
» more
As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
» more
Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
MilvusQdrantWeaviate
DB-Engines blog posts

Vector databases
2 June 2023, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Weaviate, an ANN Database with CRUD support
2 February 2021,  Etienne Dilocker, SeMI Technologies (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

AI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr - SitePoint
30 August 2024, SitePoint

How NVIDIA GPU Acceleration Supercharged Milvus Vector Database
26 March 2024, The New Stack

IBM watsonx.data’s integrated vector database: unify, prepare, and deliver your data for AI
9 April 2024, IBM

10 top vector database options for similarity searches
8 August 2024, TechTarget

Zilliz Introduces Milvus 2.4 with GPU Indexing Support for CAGRA
20 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

provided by Google News

Qdrant review: A highly flexible option for vector search
29 July 2024, InfoWorld

Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M
23 January 2024, TechCrunch

Vector database company Qdrant wants RAG to be more cost-effective
2 July 2024, VentureBeat

Qdrant Launches Groundbreaking Pure Vector-Based Hybrid Search, Setting Higher Standards for RAG and AI Applications
2 July 2024, Business Wire

Qdrant unveils hybrid vector algorithm for improved RAG
2 July 2024, Blocks & Files

provided by Google News

Vector database startup Weaviate debuts ‘AI workbench’ and flexible storage tiers
30 July 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Weaviate Achieves Amazon Web Services GenAI Competency Status
8 July 2024, GlobeNewswire

Weaviate Enhances Cloud Console with New Collections and Explorer Tools for AI Developers
31 July 2024, Datanami

StructuredRAG Released by Weaviate: A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate Large Language Models’ Ability to Generate Reliable JSON Outputs for Complex AI Systems
26 August 2024, MarkTechPost

Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector database on AWS Marketplace
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here