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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Sequoiadb vs. TempoIQ vs. YottaDB

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Name

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Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

milvus.io

www.sequoiadb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

TempoIQ

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2019

2013

2012

2001

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Document is locked during a transaction

optimistic locking

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

simple password-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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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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