# NucliaDB vs txtai

| Attribute | NucliaDB | txtai |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55.8 (51% (medium)) | 60.4 (56% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 70 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 14 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 12,909 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | txtai is an open-source Python framework for building semantic search applications, LLM-powered agents, retrieval augmented generation systems, and language model workflows with support for multiple vector backends and integration with various LLMs. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":false,"storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW, IVF, IVFSparse, milvus-lite, turbovec, zvec","deployment":"embedded","consistency":"tunable","open_source":true,"quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","hybrid_retrieval":true,"metadata_filtering":"pre_filter","citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Marketplace"}]` | `[{"name":"llama.cpp"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"smolagents"},{"name":"OpenCode"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Milvus"},{"name":"LiteRT"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$700/month","features":["RAG","Q&A","Community support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":700,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Ideal for teams exploring AI-powered search and retrieval","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"tokens":"10,000/month","file_size":"750MB per file (text-based)","indexed_data":"5GB or 15k resources"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$1,925/month","features":["RAG","Q&A","AI classification","Generative search","AI Assistant","Doc summarization","Community support + ZenDesk"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1925,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Built for growing organizations that need more data capacity, integrations and AI capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"tokens":"10,000/month","file_size":"1.5GB per file (all file types)","indexed_data":"25GB or 80k resources"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom quote","features":["RAG","Q&A","AI classification","Generative search","AI Assistant","Doc summarization","Prompt LAB","RAB LAB","Private Slack Channel + ZenDesk"],"description":"Designed for large-scale deployments with unlimited scalability, on-prem options and advanced support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"file_size":"Unlimited","indexed_data":"Unlimited"}}],"summary":"From $700/month. 14-day free trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nuclia.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:22:32.996Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":700,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:43:59.946Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 26 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.12.0","date":"2026-07-30T19:43:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.11.0","date":"2026-07-01T15:07:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.10.0","date":"2026-06-04T10:22:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.9.0","date":"2026-05-12T15:21:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.8.0","date":"2026-04-29T15:29:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.7.0","date":"2026-03-20T17:10:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.6.0","date":"2026-02-25T17:56:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-02-12T16:44:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.4.1","date":"2026-01-23T17:03:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.4.0","date":"2026-01-21T15:30:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.3.0","date":"2025-12-22T23:35:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.2.0","date":"2025-11-21T15:09:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.1.0","date":"2025-11-04T13:23:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.0.1","date":"2025-09-15T13:25:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v9.0.0","date":"2025-08-28T19:17:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v8.6.0","date":"2025-06-10T14:25:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v8.5.0","date":"2025-04-14T20:09:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v8.4.0","date":"2025-03-11T14:24:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v8.3.1","date":"2025-02-12T16:51:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v8.3.0","date":"2025-02-11T18:56:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.3.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=txtai&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | NucliaDB | txtai |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Embedded |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✗ | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW, IVF, IVFSparse, milvus-lite, turbovec, zvec |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | cosine |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | - | Pre-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | - | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | Scalar |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | Tunable |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Permissive OSS |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T20:42:29.302Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*