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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.bangdb.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperDGraph LabsSachin Sinha, BangDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2017201220102019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC, C++ErlangC++, Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BadgerBangdbIBM CloudantMilvus
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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