We performed a comparison between ClickHouse and Milvus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird and others in Open Source Databases."If you have a real-time basis, you should take a look at ClickHouse because it works on a vector database, and the querying is super fast compared to traditional databases."
"I like the accuracy and usability."
"The solution is well containerized, and since containerization is quick and easy for me, I can scale it up quickly."
"The best feature of Milvus was finding the closest chunk from a huge amount of data."
"Milvus has good accuracy and performance."
"One issue is that you need persistent volumes. Otherwise, if one system goes down, you lose data in that cluster."
"I've heard that when we store too much data in Milvus, it becomes slow and does not work properly."
"Milvus' documentation is not very user-friendly and doesn't help me get started quickly."
"Milvus could make it simpler. Simplifying the requirements and making it more accessible. It could be more user-friendly."
"Milvus has higher resource consumption, which introduces complexity in implementation."
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ClickHouse is ranked 13th in Open Source Databases with 1 review while Milvus is ranked 12th in Open Source Databases with 4 reviews. ClickHouse is rated 7.0, while Milvus is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ClickHouse writes "Query engine is super fast but improvement needed in integration to third-party applications or the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Milvus writes "Provides quick and easy containerization, but documentation is not very user-friendly". ClickHouse is most compared with OpenSearch, Cassandra and PostgreSQL, whereas Milvus is most compared with Elastic Search, Faiss, LanceDB, Chroma and MongoDB.
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