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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitemilvus.iopouchdb.comprometheus.iorethinkdb.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Cesbit
Initial release20192012201520092017
Current release2.4.4, May 20247.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoJavaScriptGoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringnoNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoNumeric data
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
TriggersnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonoyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusPouchDBPrometheusRethinkDBSiriDB
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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