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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Ehcache vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.15
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score5.55
Rank#69  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#383  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#331  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.comwww.ehcache.orgmilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newtswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenNMS GroupParadigma Software
Initial release20112009201920141999
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20233.10.0, March 20222.3.4, January 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JCacheRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++nononoyes
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.noRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Couchbase infoOriginally called MembaseEhcacheMilvusNewtsValentina Server
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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