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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Sequoiadb vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.49
Rank	#175	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#266	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#353	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

milvus.io

www.sequoiadb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2019

2013

2023

Current release

2.2, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Ubuntu

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

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

yes

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

simple password-based access control

Access Control Lists

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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

Video media : video understanding, video deduplication. E-commerce and mobile applications...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by over 1,000 enterprises, including Baidu, eBay, IKEA, LINE, Shopee,...
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Market metrics

As of February 2023, 20k+ GitHub stars 2M+ downloads and installations 1000+ 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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