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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. TerarkDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesWidely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.comprometheus.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20191994201220152016
Current release2.3.4, January 202418.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringnonoNumeric data onlyno
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnononono
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusOracle Berkeley DBPouchDBPrometheusTerarkDB
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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