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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. Riak TS

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgmilvus.iopouchdb.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20092019201220152015
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.4.4, May 20247.1.1, June 20193.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoJavaScriptGoErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringnoNumeric data onlyno
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJCacheRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptnoErlang
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby Federationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes 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 controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonono
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EhcacheMilvusPouchDBPrometheusRiak TS
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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