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DBMS > Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitemilvus.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereyottadb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperquasardbSiteWhereYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2019200920102001
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryyesno
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP RESTPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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MilvusQuasardbSiteWhereYottaDB
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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