Milvus
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy it if you run AI similarity search at serious scale and have infra staff to operate a distributed database.
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Milvus vs MyScale | Run Vector Search with SQL
Milvus and MyScale | Run Vector Search with SQL both land on Depends.
MyScale | Run Vector Search with SQL
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're a SQL-heavy team running RAG or semantic search at real scale and have outgrown Postgres.
| Compare | Milvus | MyScale | Run Vector Search with SQL |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | RAG and AI search teams at scale | SQL-first AI teams |
| Who it's not for | Hobby projects or apps under ~1M vectors | Anyone not yet outgrowing Postgres + pgvector |
| Privacy | Active CVE history through 2025-2026; safe only with fast patching.³ | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.16 |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources reviewed | No support evidence in reviewed sources |
| Public sentiment | Users praise Milvus's speed and scale; friction centers on setup complexity and running costs.¹ | Independent user feedback is thin; the strongest signal is a 4.6/5 G2 rating, while Reddit and Hacker News posts about MyScale are largely vendor-authored.11 |
| Biggest gotcha | CVE-2025-64513: unauthenticated auth bypass in the proxy. Patch immediately if internet-exposed. | Guess: managed pod pricing can scale fast with vector volume . confirm overage terms before committing. |
Pick Milvus when
- RAG and AI search teams at scale
- Billion-scale similarity search
- Engineering orgs wanting open source
- Teams with dedicated DevOps capacity
When Milvus is not a fit
- Hobby projects or apps under ~1M vectors
- Teams with no DevOps or Kubernetes experience
- Buyers wanting zero-maintenance managed simplicity
- Anyone who can't patch promptly after CVEs
Pick MyScale | Run Vector Search with SQL when
- SQL-first AI teams
- RAG and semantic search builders
- Legal and finance document search
- Large multimodal vector datasets
When MyScale | Run Vector Search with SQL is not a fit
- Anyone not yet outgrowing Postgres + pgvector
- Prototypes and small apps . a dedicated vector DB is overkill
- Teams requiring published security or compliance docs
- Buyers who can't verify pricing before committing
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- Zilliz Cloud Pricingzilliz.comofficial
- pgvector vs Milvus: 5 key differencesinstaclustr.comreview
- Milvus Review . 4.7 from 11 Reviews (Crystil)growth.crystil.comreview
- Our Journey to 35K+ GitHub Starsmilvus.ioofficial
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- AI in SQL Server vs PostgreSQL: Vector Search, Embeddingssqlservercentral.comreview
- MyScale product sitemyscale.comofficial
- MyScale security pagemyscale.comsecurity