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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitemanticoresearch.commilvus.iopouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20172019201220112005
Current release6.0, February 20232.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJavaScriptC#
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)WindowsLinux
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
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
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptnoR packages
Triggersnonoyesnono
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-loungenoneSharding
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
noneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
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 writesnononoACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Manticore SearchMilvusPouchDBSTSdbTeradata Aster
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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