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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score3.77
Rank#87  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitearangodb.comjsqldb.org (offline)milvus.iopouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Konrad von BackstromApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122018201920122011
Current release3.11.5, November 20230.8, December 20182.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnoVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptfunctions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0noneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnono
More information provided by the system vendor
ArangoDBJSqlDbMilvusPouchDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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