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Comparison

MyScale vs Zilliz Cloud

On the evidence we track, Zilliz Cloud leads this comparison with a composite score of 80/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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MyScale55
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
vioscaleAI score
MyScale55 / 100low · 45%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloudhigh
Starting price
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloud$197
Transparent
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
MyScale11
Zilliz Cloud1,000
Security
Certifications
MyScale–
Zilliz CloudSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001
Gdpr
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Soc2
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Trust center
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloudhttps://zilliz.com/trust-center
Reliability
Sla pct
MyScale–
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
MyScale6 items
Zilliz Cloud6 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
MyScaleManaged
Zilliz CloudManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
MyScale-
Zilliz Cloud✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
MyScaleMSTG
Zilliz CloudHNSW, IVF, FLAT (brute-force), SCANN, DiskANN
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
MyScalecosine
Zilliz Cloudcosine, Euclidean
Query
Metadata filtering
MyScalePre-filter
Zilliz CloudPost-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Storage
Quantization
MyScale-
Zilliz Cloud-
On-disk vs in-memory
MyScale-
Zilliz CloudTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Horizontal scale
MyScaleSharded / distributed
Zilliz CloudSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
MyScale-
Zilliz Cloud-
Licensing
Licence class
MyScale-
Zilliz CloudProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
MyScaleDedicated DBMS
Zilliz CloudDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

MyScale

A fully SQL-compatible vector database for building production-grade GenAI applications with native SQL integration, supporting vector search, text search, and complex SQL-vector queries.

Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader

Zilliz Cloud is a managed cloud service built on the open-source Milvus vector database. It handles storage, indexing, and similarity search at scale for unstructured data, supporting vector search, full-text search, and hybrid retrieval for AI and machine learning workloads.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

MyScale

Pricing not documented yet.

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
from $197/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 5 GB storage. Serverless pricing from $0/month pay-per-query. Dedicated clusters from $197/month. Annual commitments available.

  • FreeFree
    • Community support via Slack
    • Vector search
    • Filtered search
    • Range search
  • ServerlessPay-per-query pricing, system-managed auto-scaling
    • Fully managed vector databases
    • Backup and restore
    • Basic monitoring
    • Built-in encryption for data in transit and at rest
    • Vector search
    • +2 more
  • DedicatedFrom $197/month base, plus $0.126/GB storage, dedicated infrastructure
    • 99.95% uptime SLA
    • SSO (SAML 2.0)
    • Granular RBAC
    • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
    • Global cluster with disaster recovery
    • +9 more
  • BYOCContact sales
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Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
CLI
MyScale✗
Zilliz Cloud✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
MyScale✓
Zilliz Cloud✓

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • AWS
  • DSPy
  • Cohere
  • Voyage AI

MyScale

11 total - 7 not shared
  • OpenAI
  • Llama Index
  • Dify
  • BentoML
  • Gemini
  • Jina
  • Hugging Face
Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
32 total - 28 not shared
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain
  • Fivetran
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Sheets
  • Hubspot
  • LinkedIn Ad Analytics
  • Marketo
  • Microsoft Advertising
  • NetSuite SuiteAnalytics
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
  • Apache SeaTunnel
  • PostgreSQL/Pgvector
  • PyMilvus
  • Claude
  • Prometheus
  • HoneyHive
  • Haystack
  • FiftyOne
  • Jina AI
  • n8n
  • +4 more
Independently observed
Still deciding?

MyScale or Zilliz Cloud: 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.

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