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498 views|439 comparisons
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Percona Server
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Milvus vs. Percona Server
May 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Milvus and Percona Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Open Source Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Sameer Bhangale
Provides quick and easy containerization, but documentation is not very user-friendly
Umair Hassan
Open-source and free to use with a good community
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Pros
"The solution is well containerized, and since containerization is quick and easy for me, I can scale it up quickly.""I like the accuracy and usability.""Milvus has good accuracy and performance.""The best feature of Milvus was finding the closest chunk from a huge amount of data."

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"We find the product mostly stable."

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Cons
"Milvus' documentation is not very user-friendly and doesn't help me get started quickly.""Milvus could make it simpler. Simplifying the requirements and making it more accessible. It could be more user-friendly.""I've heard that when we store too much data in Milvus, it becomes slow and does not work properly.""Milvus has higher resource consumption, which introduces complexity in implementation."

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"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."

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  • "Milvus is an open-source solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Milvus?
    Top Answer:The solution is well containerized, and since containerization is quick and easy for me, I can scale it up quickly.
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    What needs improvement with Milvus?
    Top Answer:Milvus' documentation is not very user-friendly and doesn't help me get started quickly. Milvus usually comes with some dependencies because of the way it needs to be deployed.
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    What is your primary use case for Milvus?
    Top Answer:We use Milvus mostly for RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation).
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    What do you like most about Percona Server?
    Top Answer:We find the product mostly stable.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Percona Server?
    Top Answer:This is an open-source product and is free to use.
    What needs improvement with Percona Server?
    Top Answer:I would love to see the flashback in Percona MySQL or even in Percona PostgreSQL. It's available in Oracle, the flashback. In Oracle, there's the utility of a flashback. It stores all the information… more »
    Ranking
    11th
    out of 18 in Open Source Databases
    Views
    498
    Comparisons
    439
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    317
    Rating
    7.0
    8th
    out of 18 in Open Source Databases
    Views
    1,799
    Comparisons
    1,680
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    884
    Rating
    8.0
    Comparisons
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    Overview

    Milvus is a powerful tool for efficiently storing and retrieving large-scale vectors or embeddings. It is widely used in applications such as similarity search, recommendation systems, image and video retrieval, and natural language processing. 

    With its fast and accurate search capabilities, scalability, and support for multiple programming languages, Milvus is suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases. 

    Users appreciate its efficient search capabilities, ability to handle large-scale data, support for various data types, and user-friendly interface. 

    Milvus enables easy retrieval of information from vast datasets, regardless of the data format, and is praised for its high performance and scalability. The intuitive and easy-to-use interface is also highlighted as a valuable aspect of the platform.

    Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides good performance, scalability and instrumentation. With over 3,000,000 downloads, Percona Server for MySQL's self-tuning algorithms and support for extremely high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability.
    Sample Customers
    1. Alibaba Group 2. Tencent 3. Baidu 4. JD.com 5. Meituan 6. Xiaomi 7. Didi Chuxing 8. ByteDance 9. Huawei 10. ZTE 11. Lenovo 12. Haier 13. China Mobile 14. China Telecom 15. China Unicom 16. Ping An Insurance 17. China Life Insurance 18. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 19. Bank of China 20. Agricultural Bank of China 21. China Construction Bank 22. PetroChina 23. Sinopec 24. China National Offshore Oil Corporation 25. China Southern Airlines 26. Air China 27. China Eastern Airlines 28. China Railway Group 29. China Railway Construction Corporation 30. China Communications Construction Company 31. China Merchants Group 32. China Evergrande Group
    Pricefalls Marketplace, Micpoint, Rent the Runway, Transmart, Wattpad, Singular Group, Invoca, 3E
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Educational Organization9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company28%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise53%
    Buyer's Guide
    Milvus vs. Percona Server
    May 2024
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    Milvus is ranked 11th in Open Source Databases with 4 reviews while Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews. Milvus is rated 7.6, while Percona Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Milvus writes "Provides quick and easy containerization, but documentation is not very user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". Milvus is most compared with Elastic Search, Faiss, LanceDB, Chroma and OpenSearch, whereas Percona Server is most compared with MariaDB, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. See our Milvus vs. Percona Server report.

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