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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmilvus.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGeoSpockApache Software Foundation
Initial release201420192012
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++, GoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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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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