DBMS > Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

geospock.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

milvus.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.heavy.ai

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

GeoSpock

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Percona

Initial release

2011

2016

2019

2015

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.0, September 2019

5.10, January 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, Javascript

C++ and CUDA

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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