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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

en.gstore.cn

milvus.io

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

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2019

2015

2020

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

C++, Go

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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 datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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

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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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