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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Kingbase vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kingbase.com.cnmilvus.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9milvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release1991199920192012
Current release5.7V8.0, August 20212.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++, GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesVector, 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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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jBASEKingbaseMilvusPouchDB
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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