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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. ScyllaDB vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSWide column storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.scylladb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.scylladb.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperScyllaDBinformationpartners gmbhAlex Kashirin
Initial release2019201520152020
Current release2.3.4, January 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20241.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Luayes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoin-memory tablesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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MilvusScyllaDBsearchxmlSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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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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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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