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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. OrientDB vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. Vitess

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioorientdb.orgpouchdb.comprometheus.iovitess.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20192010201220152013
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaJavaScriptGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnoHooksyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby FederationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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MilvusOrientDBPouchDBPrometheusVitess
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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