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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Milvus vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

milvus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2019

2011

2012

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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