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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioorigodb.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20192009 infounder the name LiveDB201220112013
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC#JavaScriptC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes 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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.NetJavaScriptC#
Java
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 proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding
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
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelnonoyes 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 persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes 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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based authorizationnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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MilvusOrigoDBPouchDBSTSdbVitess
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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