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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. Milvus vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

milvus.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Softmotions

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2015

2012

2019

2005

1984

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Vector, Numeric and String

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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