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Activeloop Deep Lake

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2023

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263.5M

26.3M

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49.1K

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2022

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1.6K

355.1M

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ApertureDB

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2021

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27.0K

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Azure AI Search

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2023

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Pricing - Azure Cognitive Search

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11.4M

4.3M

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Chroma

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2023

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HNSWSPANN

29.0K

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40.8M

2.6M

5.1K

ClickHouse

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2022

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Clickhouse Pricing

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HNSW

49.1K

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6.4K

29.9M

1.6M

Couchbase

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Proprietary

c++erlang

2024

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Couchbase Pricing

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20,000,000

4,096

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90.1M

2.6M

957.4K

5.3K

CrateDB

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Apache 2.0

java

2023

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CrateDB Pricing https://console.cratedb.cloud/

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2,048

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FLATHNSW

4.4K

20.1M

210.4K

12.4K

15

Databricks Vector Search

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2024

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32,768

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HNSW

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DataStax Astra DB

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Proprietary

javago

2023

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https://www.datastax.com/pricing/astra-db

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250,000,000

8,192

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FLATHNSWFreshDiskANN

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1.3M

754.7K

—

Elasticsearch

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Elastic v2

java

2021

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FLATHNSWHNSW-BQ

77.8K

971.0M

163.6M

27.6M

2.0M

Epsilla

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GPL-3.0

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2023

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Storage: $0.025 / GB / month Compute: $0.0125 / CU / hour 1CU = 0.125vCPU 512MB RAM Traffic: $0.03 / GB https://epsilla.com/pricing

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Unlimited

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875

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5.0K

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GCP Vertex AI Vector Search

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2021

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Tree-AH

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Hyperspace

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2023

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100,000,000

8,192

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KDB.AI

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2023

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Cloud = Free: 4 GB memory per instance, 30 GB data storage, OnPrem = 90-day trial, contact sales

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FLATIVFIVF-PQHNSW

—

—

11.5K

—

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LanceDB

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Apache-2.0

rust

2023

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2,048

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FLATIVF-PQ

11.1K

—

23.4M

267.9K

119.8K

Marqo

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Apache-2.0

python

2022

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Pricing - Marqo Cloud

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HNSW

5.0K

—

164.0K

45

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Meilisearch

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MIT

rust

2023

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Meilisearch Pricing

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✕

Unlimited

Unlimited

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—

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58.9K

—

2.3M

6.0M

—

Milvus

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Apache-2.0

goc++

2019

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—

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Zilliz Cloud

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FLATHNSWANNOYIVFIVF-PQIVF-BQIVF-SQSCANNDiskANNGPU Index

45.6K

—

17.6M

2.2M

129

MongoDB Atlas

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SSPLv1

c++java

2023

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MongoDB Pricing

✕

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16,000,000

8,192

✔

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FLATHNSW

—

4823.4M

1.6K

1.5M

—

MyScale

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Apache-2.0

c++

2023

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FLATMSTGIVFIVF-PQIVF-SQSCANNHNSW

1.0K

59.0K

724

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Neo4j

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javascala

2023

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2,048

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HNSW

—

319.7M

38.7M

11.3K

31.1K

Nuclia DB

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AGPL-3.0

rustpython

2021

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HNSW

720

—

132.2K

2.0K

—

OpenSearch

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Apache-2.0

java

2021

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100,000,000

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FLATHNSW

13.5K

195.5M

21.6K

21.3M

648.8K

OramaSearch

✔

Apache-2.0

typescript

2022

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✕

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free plan / $4.99 per month (pro)

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—

—

Unlimited

—

—

—

10.5K

—

—

12.7M

—

ParadeDB

✔

AGPL-3.0

rust

2023

✔

✔

—

✔

✕

✔

✔

✔

✕

—

—

—

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—

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✔

✔

—

✕

—

2,000

—

—

FLATIVFHNSW

9.1K

2.3M

—

—

—

pgvecto.rs

✔

Apache-2.0

rust

2023

✔

✔

—

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Unlimited

65,535

✔

✔

FLATIVFHNSW

2.2K

22.1M

501.7K

—

—

pgvector

✔

PostgreSQL

c

2021

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—

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✕

—

2,000

—

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FLATIVFHNSW

22.6K

—

91.1M

4.8M

3.4M

pgvectorscale

✔

PostgreSQL

rust

2023

✔

✔

—

✔

✔

✔

✔

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✔

—

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—

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✔

Timescale Cloud

✕

✔

✔

✕

✕

—

16,000

—

—

DiskANNFreshDiskANN

3.1K

—

—

—

—

Pinecone

✕

Proprietary

rust

2019

✔

✔

✕

✕

✕

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✕

◐

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✕

—

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full

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✔

✔

✔

40,000

20,000

—

—

Proprietary

—

—

23.2M

8.4M

241

Qdrant

✔

Apache-2.0

rust

2021

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✕

✔

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—

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Qdrant Pricing (free tier available)

◐

✔

✔

✔

✔

Unlimited

65,536

◐

◐

FLATHNSWHNSW-PQHNSW-SQHNSW-BQ

33.9K

40.6M

71.4M

551.3K

359.2K

Redis Search

✔

AGPL-3.0 / SSPLv1

c

2021

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✕

✔

✔

✕

—

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—

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—

Unlimited

—

—

FLATHNSWSVS-VAMANA

76.0K

11095.6M

58.4K

114.9M

—

Rockset

✕

Proprietary

c++

2023

✔

✔

✔

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✕

✕

✕

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◐

◐

✕

✕

✕

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—

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✔

✔

✕

✔

41,943,040

Unlimited

—

—

FAISS-IVF

—

—

377.4K

923

—

SingleStoreDB

✕

Proprietary

c++go

2017

✔

✔

✔

✔

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✕

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Unlimited

—

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FLATIVFHNSW

—

731.9K

1.4M

46

—

TopK

✕

Proprietary

rusttypescriptpython

2024

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Send us an email

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—

✔

Unlimited

Unlimited

—

—

Proprietary

90

—

182.4K

2.9K

—

Turbopuffer

✕

Proprietary

rust

2023

✔

◐

✕

✕

✕

✕

✔

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✕

—

—

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✔

$1/million vecs, $4/million queries

✕

✔

—

✕

✔

65,536

10,752

—

—

SPANN

—

—

14.2M

8.1M

—

txtai

✔

Apache-2.0

python

2020

✔

✔

—

—

✔

✕

✔

—

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—

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—

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✔

✔

Unlimited

Unlimited

—

—

FLATFAISSHNSWANNOY

12.8K

—

111.4K

1.0K

66

Typesense

✔

GPL-3.0

c++

2023

✔

✔

✔

✔

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—

✕

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—

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—

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Pricing | Typesense Cloud

✕

✔

✕

✕

—

Unlimited

Unlimited

—

—

FLATHNSW

26.4K

—

3.1M

8.4M

—

USearch

✔

Apache-2.0

c++

2023

◐

—

✕

✔

✔

—

✕

◐

◐

◐

—

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—

✔

✔

✕

none

✔

✕

✔

—

✕

Unlimited

Unlimited

✔

✔

FLATHNSWHNSW-BQ

4.3K

—

1.6M

252.4K

172.3K

Vald

✔

Apache-2.0

go

2021

—

—

—

—

—

✕

—

✕

—

—

—

—

—

✔

✕

✕

—

✕

—

—

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—

—

Unlimited

—

—

FAISSNGT

1.7K

—

4.2K

684

—

Vectara

✕

Proprietary

—

2021

✔

✔

—

—

—

✕

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✕

✕

—

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—

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Pricing - Vectara

✕

✔

✔

—

—

52,428,800

—

—

—

—

—

14.1K

—

3.1K

—

Vespa

✔

Apache-2.0

javac++

2017

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

◐

◐

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✔

https://cloud.vespa.ai/price-calculator

✕

—

✔

—

✔

Unlimited

Unlimited

✔

✔

FLATHNSWHNSW-BQSPANN

7.0K

14.8M

34.5M

—

—

Weaviate

✔

BSD

go

2019

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✕

✔

✔

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✔

—

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Unlimited

65,535

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FLATFLAT-BQHNSWHNSW-PQHNSW-BQ

16.7K

20.5M

554.5M

4.2M

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