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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. VoltDB

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmilvus.iowww.progress.com/­openedgewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2014201919842010
Current release2.4.4, May 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, GoJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and groupsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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LokiJSMilvusOpenEdgeVoltDB
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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