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DBMS > jBASE vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasemilvus.iopouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9milvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software FoundationSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release1991201920121994
Current release5.72.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 201916.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
SAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
jBASEMilvusPouchDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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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