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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitemilvus.iosqream.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.sqream.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSQream TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201920172022
Current release2.4.4, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, based on authentication and database rules
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusSQream DBSurrealDB
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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