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Comparison

NucliaDB 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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NucliaDB57
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
Vioscale score
NucliaDB57 / 100medium · 51%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
NucliaDBcommercial
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
NucliaDBhigh
Zilliz Cloudfree
Transparent
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
NucliaDB1
Zilliz Cloud4
Security
Gdpr
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
NucliaDB–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Soc2
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Reliability
Sla pct
NucliaDB–
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
NucliaDB–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
NucliaDBManaged
Zilliz CloudManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
NucliaDB✗
Zilliz Cloud✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
NucliaDB-
Zilliz Cloud-
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
NucliaDB-
Zilliz Cloud-
Query
Metadata filtering
NucliaDB-
Zilliz CloudPost-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
NucliaDB-
Zilliz Cloud✓
Storage
Quantization
NucliaDB-
Zilliz Cloud-
On-disk vs in-memory
NucliaDBDisk-backed
Zilliz CloudTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Horizontal scale
NucliaDBSharded / distributed
Zilliz CloudSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
NucliaDB-
Zilliz Cloud-
Licensing
Licence class
NucliaDBProprietary
Zilliz CloudProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
NucliaDBDedicated DBMS
Zilliz CloudDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

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

Zilliz Cloud

Leader

Fully managed Vector Lakebase services designed for high reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at scale. Purpose-built for real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics at billion-scale.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
from $0/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

Free tier available. Paid plans start from $197/month (Enterprise Dedicated) or usage-based pricing ($126/GB for Standard Dedicated).

  • FreeFree
    • Vector search
    • Up to 5 collections
  • StandardFrom $0/month (Serverless) or from $126/GB/month (Dedicated)
    • Fully managed vector databases with core APIs
    • Backup and restore
    • Basic monitoring
    • Data encryption in transit and at rest
  • EnterpriseFrom $197/month (Dedicated)
    • 99.95% uptime SLA
    • Audit logs
    • SSO (SAML 2.0)
    • Granular RBAC
    • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
    • +1 more
  • Business CriticalContact sales
    • Global cluster with high-level availability
    • Disaster recovery
    • CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption
    • HIPAA-eligible
    • Rapid incident response
  • BYOCContact sales
    • Deploy on your infrastructure of choice
    • High-level control and security
    • Same features and experience as SaaS Dedicated clusters
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hybrid
NucliaDB✓
Zilliz Cloud✗

Integrations

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

NucliaDB

1 total
  • AWS Marketplace
Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
4 total
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain
Independently observed

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