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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 systemKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitemilvus.iopouchdb.comprometheus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20192012201520112022
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaScriptGoC#Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringnoNumeric data onlyyes 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
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 Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnononoyes, based on authentication and database rules
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MilvusPouchDBPrometheusSTSdbSurrealDB
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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