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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
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Score1.31
Rank#205  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.62
Rank#77  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#368  Overall
#51  Document stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.torodb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.torodb.com/­stampede/­docs
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies8Kdata
Initial release201920092016
Current release2.2, November 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++, GoErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlang
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles
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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 scenariosVideo media : video understanding, video deduplication. E-commerce and mobile applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by over 1,000 enterprises, including Baidu, eBay, IKEA, LINE, Shopee,...
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Market metricsAs of February 2023, 14k+ GitHub stars 2M+ downloads and installations 1000+ 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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