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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeVector DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.orgmilvus.ioorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperCoveoIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122010200320192009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release1.6.27, May 20242.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++, GoC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoVector, Numeric and StringUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole based authorization
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CoveoIBM CloudantMemcachedMilvusOrigoDB
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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