Comparison

Milvus vs NucliaDB

No clear leader: Milvus (57.2) and NucliaDB (55.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Milvus57
NucliaDB56
Score
vioscaleAI score
Milvus57 / 100medium · 57%
NucliaDB56 / 100medium · 51%
Pricing
Free tier
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✓
Model
NucliaDBcommercial
Price level
Milvusfree
NucliaDBhigh
Transparent
Milvus✗
NucliaDB✓
Integrations
Count
Milvus2
NucliaDB1
Security
Gdpr
Milvus–
NucliaDB✓
Iso27001
Milvus–
NucliaDB✓
Scorecard
Milvus4.4
NucliaDB–
Soc2
Milvus–
NucliaDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Milvus7
NucliaDB–
Github stars
Milvus46,375
NucliaDB–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Milvus100
NucliaDB–
Release
Cadence days
Milvus7
NucliaDB–
History
Milvus20 items
NucliaDB–
License
Spdx
NucliaDB–
Language
Primary
MilvusGo
NucliaDB–
Content
Faq
Milvus6 items
NucliaDB5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
MilvusSelf-hosted
NucliaDBManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✗
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
MilvusHNSW, IVF, FLAT, SCANN, DiskANN, GPU_CAGRA
NucliaDB-
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Milvuscosine, Euclidean, dot product
NucliaDB-
Query
Metadata filtering
MilvusPre-filter
NucliaDB-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Milvus✓
NucliaDB-
Storage
Quantization
MilvusProduct
NucliaDB-
On-disk vs in-memory
MilvusDisk-backed
NucliaDBDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✓
Horizontal scale
MilvusSharded / distributed
NucliaDBSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
MilvusEventual
NucliaDB-
Licensing
Licence class
MilvusPermissive OSS
NucliaDBProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
MilvusDedicated DBMS
NucliaDBDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Milvus

A high-performance, distributed vector database that enables fast similarity search across billions of high-dimensional vectors, supporting real-time updates, flexible metadata filtering, and hybrid search capabilities for AI and machine learning applications.

Independently observed

NucliaDB

Progress Agentic RAG is a RAG-as-a-Service platform providing a centralized agentic knowledge layer for building AI experiences with enterprise-scale governance, compliance, and multi-agent capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Milvus

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

NucliaDB

from $700/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $700/month. 14-day free trial available.

  • Starter$700/month
    • RAG
    • Q&A
    • Community support
  • Pro$1,925/month
    • RAG
    • Q&A
    • AI classification
    • Generative search
    • AI Assistant
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • RAG
    • Q&A
    • AI classification
    • Generative search
    • AI Assistant
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✓
Linux
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✗
CLI
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✓
Self-hosted
Milvus✓
NucliaDB✗
Hybrid
Milvus✗
NucliaDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Milvus

8 total
  • OpenAI
  • Sentence Transformers
  • BGE-M3
  • SPLADE
  • Jina AI
  • BM25
  • PyMilvus
  • Jina
Independently observed

NucliaDB

1 total
  • AWS Marketplace
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Milvus or NucliaDB: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.