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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

milvus.io

rocksdb.org

sql.js.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2019

2013

2012

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

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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