Zilliz Cloud vs Vespa

Zilliz Cloud vs. Vespa

Compare Zilliz Cloud vs. Vespa 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. Vespa on Scalability

Zilliz CloudVespa

Separation of storage and compute

Yes.

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Separation of query and insertions

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

Yes.

Multi-replication

❌

Dynamic segment placement vs. static data sharding

Dynamic segment placement

Both

Cloud-native

❌

Billion-scale vector support

❌

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.

Vespa

Vespa is a scalable search engine with a robust distributed architecture that supports horizontal scaling by adding more nodes. It features automatic sharding and data redistribution, allowing it to efficiently manage large datasets and high query volumes.

Zilliz Cloud vs. Vespa on Functionality

Zilliz CloudVespa

Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

❌

Disk Index support

❌

Yes (paged tensor attributes)

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 seach

Partitions/namespaces/logical groups

Yes.

❌

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.

HNSW, Hybrid HNSW-IF (Inverted File), paged tensor attributes

Multiple in-memory indexes support

❌

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.

Vespa

Vespa is a powerful search engine and vector database that can handle multiple searches simultaneously. It's great at vector search, text search, and searching through structured data.

Zilliz Cloud vs. Vespa on Purpose-built

Zilliz CloudVespa

Purpose-built for Vectors

❌

Yes.

Tunable consistency

❌

Support for both stream and batch of vector data

❌

Binary Vector support

❌

Multi-language SDK

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

Python, Java

Database rollback

✔️

❌

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

Zilliz Cloud

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

SaaS

Vespa

Vespa is a powerful search engine and vector database that can handle multiple searches simultaneously. It's great at vector search, text search, and searching through structured data.

Apache 2.0