Milvus vs TileDB Cloud
Milvus
milvus.ioTileDB Cloud
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| Figure | Milvus | TileDB Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $10/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Ai Databases | 8.3 (#8) | 7.3 (#28) |
| Integrations | The integrations documentation lists tools including LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, DSPy, Dify, Langflow, OpenAI, Cohere, and HuggingFace. | TileDB documents Python DBI and JDBC connectors for SQL access to TileDB Cloud. |
| Intended users | The documentation describes Distributed as suited to enterprise users running large-scale vector search systems in production. | TileDB describes use cases including genomics, single-cell data, biomedical imaging, FAIR compliance, and trusted research environments. |
| Support | The Milvus site lists community channels including Slack, Discord, GitHub, and Milvus Office Hours. | The company offers Dedicated Success Engineer hours in annual increments of 100 hours. |
Plans
TileDB Cloud
- User seat$10 a month
- vCPU$50 a month
- DSE - Dedicated Success Engineer$250, paid once
In their own words
Milvus
Milvus is an open-source vector database from Zilliz for GenAI and scalable vector search. It supports approximate-nearest-neighbor, filtered, range, hybrid, and full-text search, along with reranking, fetch, and query operations. Metadata filtering, sparse vectors, and index types including HNSW, IVF, FLAT, DiskANN, and SCANN are documented. Deployment choices are Milvus Lite as a Python library, Standalone as a single-machine server, and Distributed on Kubernetes. Documentation recommends Lite for up to a few million vectors, Standalone up to 100 million, and Distributed for 100 million to tens of billions. Lite can run locally without a cloud service for private or sensitive data; an online upgrade from Standalone to a cluster is not currently supported. Official interfaces include REST plus Python, Go, Java, Node.js, and C++ APIs or SDKs. C# is contributed by Microsoft and Rust is under development. Security documentation covers authentication, TLS for gRPC and REST, and role-based access control at collection, database, and instance levels. The Apache 2.0 software is free, and Zilliz Cloud is offered as a managed option.
TileDB Cloud
TileDB Cloud has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.