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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitemilvus.ioraima.comravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.raima.comravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperRaima Inc.Hibernating RhinosAlex Kashirin
Initial release2019198420102020
Current release2.3.4, January 202415, June 20215.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoCC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesno
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 infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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MilvusRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRavenDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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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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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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