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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

milvus.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

surrealdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

surrealdb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

SurrealDB Ltd

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2019

2008

2022

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

v1.1.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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++, Go

C++

Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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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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