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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.02
Rank#90  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score101.91
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperDwayne Richard HippAlex KashirinTempoIQ
Initial release2019200020202012
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyes infodynamic column typesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnosimple authentication-based access control
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MilvusSQLiteSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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