Comparisons
Zilliz Cloud vs LanceDB

Zilliz Cloud vs. LanceDB

Compare Zilliz Cloud vs. LanceDB by the following set of capabilities. We want you to choose the best database for you, even if it’s not us.

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Zilliz Cloud vs. LanceDB on Scalability

Zilliz CloudLanceDB

Separation of storage and compute

Yes.

Separation of query and insertions

Yes. At the component level (which provides more fine-grained scalability)

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Multi-replication

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Dynamic segment placement vs. static data sharding

Dynamic segment placement

No (static data sharding coming soon)

Cloud-native

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Billion-scale vector support

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Zilliz Cloud

Zilliz Cloud is a managed vector database service powered by Milvus. Its cloud-native architecture dynamically scales to 10B+ vectors, maintaining high performance and cost-efficiency without the need for new clusters or data sharding.

LanceDB

LanceDB is an open-source vector database that's designed to store, manage, query and retrieve embeddings on multi-modal data. LanceDB and its underlying data format, Lance, are built to scale to really large amounts of data (hundreds of terabytes, 200M+ vectors).

Zilliz Cloud vs. LanceDB on Functionality

Zilliz CloudLanceDB

Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

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Disk Index support

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Hybrid Search (ie Scalar filtering)

Yes, Hybrid sparse and dense search, hybrid keyword and vector search, hybrid vector search and scalar filtering, multimodal search

Yes, vector search & keyword search

Partitions/namespaces/logical groups

Yes.

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Index type supported

Cardinal (The world's first AI-based Autoindex mechanism that selects the best search strategy and index for each dataset, eliminating the need for manual tuning.), closed-source.

IVF-PQ, HNSW

(LanceDB adopts a disk-based indexing philosophy.)

Multiple in-memory indexes support

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Zilliz Cloud

Zilliz Cloud is a managed vector database service powered by Milvus. It uses the world's first AI-based Autoindex mechanism that selects the best search strategy and index for each dataset, eliminating the need for manual tuning. It offers intelligent resource management and tiered storage capabilities to minimize expenses while maintaining superior query speeds, ensuring you never compromise performance.

Zilliz Cloud vs. LanceDB on Purpose-built

Zilliz CloudLanceDB

Purpose-built for Vectors

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Tunable consistency

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Support for both stream and batch of vector data

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Binary Vector support

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Multi-language SDK

Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, C++, and Node.js SDKs Fully supported

Python, Javascript/Typescript, and Rust

Database rollback

✔️

Zilliz Cloud vs. LanceDB: what’s right for me?

Zilliz Cloud

Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database powered by the open-source Milvus vector database.

SaaS

LanceDB

LanceDB is an open-source vector database that's designed to store, manage, query and retrieve embeddings on multi-modal data. It also provides a SaaS solution called LanceDB Cloud that runs serverless in the cloud.

Apache 2.0