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DBMS > LMDB vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeDocument store
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Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperSymasOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC8Kdata
Initial release20112019200920112016
Current release0.9.32, January 20242.3.4, January 20243.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoErlangC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
WindowsAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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 integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
LMDBMilvusRiak KVSTSdbToroDB
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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