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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmilvus.iowww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperActian CorporationApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122011
Current release11.2, May 20222.3.4, January 202410 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoCJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
More information provided by the system vendor
IngresMilvusPostgres-XLPouchDBSTSdb
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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