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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.exasol.commilvus.iopouchdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperExasolApache Software FoundationTempoIQ8Kdata
Initial release20002019201220122016
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnosimple authentication-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles
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EXASOLMilvusPouchDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBToroDB
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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