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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Trino vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.92
Rank	#87	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	5.34
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#311	Overall
	#46	Key-value stores

Website

milvus.io

trino.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Trino Software Foundation

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2019

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2001

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

depending on connected data-source

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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News

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9 April 2025

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27 March 2025

72: Keeping the lake clean
17 March 2025

Twenty four
3 March 2025

71: Fake it real good
27 February 2025

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