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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.ioorigodb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCoveoIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20122012201020192009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, Numeric and StringUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based authorization
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Apache DrillCoveoIBM CloudantMilvusOrigoDB
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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