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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.90
Rank	#87	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

milvus.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2019

2015

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Vector databases
2 June 2023, Matthias Gelbmann

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Recent citations in the news

What Is Milvus? A Distributed Vector Database
3 March 2025, Oracle

Milvus 2.5 Creates the Best of Both Worlds With Hybrid Vector-Keyword Search
17 December 2024, GlobeNewswire

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7 November 2024, SitePoint

Hands-On Vector Similarity Search with Milvus
20 October 2024, Packt

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