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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
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Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20192014201220092010
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaJavaScriptErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesnonoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJavaScriptC 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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonoyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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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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