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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Milvus vs. RavenDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Milvus vs. RavenDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.commilvus.ioravendb.netvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdravendb.net/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCrateHibernating RhinosVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2013201920102018
Current release5.8.1, August 20242.4.4, May 20245.4, July 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC#Go
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAuthorization levels configured per client per database
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBMilvusRavenDBVictoriaMetrics
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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