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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Milvus vs. Speedb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.commilvus.iowww.speedb.io
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Speedb
Initial release20132014198420192020
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20242.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBLokiJSMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMilvusSpeedb
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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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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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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