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DBMS > Milvus vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#344  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
pouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
pouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperHuawei and openGauss communityApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release2019201920122011
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.0, March 20227.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC, C++, JavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes 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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL 2011nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonehorizontal partitioning
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
none
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
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonoyes
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MilvusopenGaussPouchDBSTSdbTranswarp KunDB
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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