DBMS > Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

milvus.io

www.sadasengine.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2019

2009

2006

2001

2020

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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