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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

cachelot.io

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

milvus.io

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2015

2014

2017

2019

2010

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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 in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and roles

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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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