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Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database based on the popular open-source Milvus. Zilliz Cloud helps to unlock high-performance similarity searches with no previous experience or extra effort needed for infrastructure management. It is ultra-fast and enables 10x faster vector retrieval, a feat unparalleled by any other vector database management system. Zilliz includes support for multiple vector search indexes, built-in filtering, and complete data encryption in transit, a requirement for enterprise-grade applications. Zilliz is a cost-effective way to build similarity search, recommender systems, and anomaly detection into applications to keep that competitive edge.

Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated cloud database that uses machine learning to automate database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks traditionally performed by DBAs. It supports a wide range of data types and models, including SQL, JSON documents, graph, geospatial, text, and vectors, enabling developers to build applications for any workload without integrating multiple specialty databases. Built-in AI and machine learning capabilities allow for natural language queries, automated data insights, and the development of AI-powered applications. It offers self-service tools for data loading, transformation, analysis, and governance, reducing the need for IT intervention. It provides flexible deployment options, including serverless and dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), as well as on-premises with Exadata Cloud@Customer.

TigerData is a high-performance, cloud-native PostgreSQL platform built for real-time analytics, time-series processing, vector workloads and intelligent agent-driven applications. It retains full SQL compatibility while delivering exceptional speed and scale: the platform powers millions of databases, supports streaming data across devices and applications, and enables organizations to consolidate transactional and analytical workloads in a single engine. TigerData enhances PostgreSQL with extensions and execution optimizations that provide low-latency queries, high-concurrency insert rates, hybrid operational/analytical use cases and vector embedding support for AI-driven workloads. Developers gain simplicity and reliability by staying within PostgreSQL’s ecosystem, familiar tools, connectors and syntax, while unlocking performance on par with purpose-built time-series or vector engines.

Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. As a distributed cloud-native database, Couchbase runs in modern dynamic environments and on any cloud, either customer-managed or fully managed as-a-service. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases. Couchbase Server is a multipurpose, distributed database that fuses the strengths of relational databases such as SQL and ACID transactions with JSON’s versatility, with a foundation that is extremely fast and scalable. It’s used across industries for things like user profiles, dynamic product catalogs, GenAI apps, vector search, high-speed caching, and much more.