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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Coveo vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmilvus.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperCoveoGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162012201220142019
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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