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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitemilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201920112018
Current release2.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)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.nono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streams
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 rightsnoRole-based access control
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MilvusSTSdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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