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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsObject-relational database and reports serverA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.valentina-db.netvelocitydb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseParadigma SoftwareVelocityDB IncWakanda SAS
Initial release20191992199920112012
Current release2.3.4, January 202417, July 20155.7.57.x2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NETLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC.NetRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesnoyes
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authenticationyes
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereValentina ServerVelocityDBWakandaDB
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 scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ 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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