DBMS > CouchDB vs. Milvus vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Milvus vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Widely used open source RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

milvus.io

www.mysql.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

STS Soft SC

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2005

2019

1995

2011

2022

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Go

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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