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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Milvus

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA multi-model DBMS and application serverA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthazelcast.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemilvus.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.intersystems.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperHazelcastInterSystems
Initial release2013200819972019
Current release5.3.6, November 20232018.1.4, May 20202.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesVector, 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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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BoltDBHazelcastInterSystems CachéMilvus
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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