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DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Solr vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Solr vs. STSdb

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitemanticoresearch.commilvus.iopouchdb.comsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guidessolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20172019201220062011
Current release6.0, February 20232.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20199.6.0, April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJavaScriptJavaC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes 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.Can index from XMLnonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infovia viewsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptJava pluginsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnonooptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoyesno
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Manticore SearchMilvusPouchDBSolrSTSdb
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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