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

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

milvus.io

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2015

1979

2012

2019

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.4.4, May 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

dBase proprietary IDE

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

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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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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