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

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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 CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeVector DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.iowww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperCoveoIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014AlachisoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122010201920052009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.3.4, January 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, GoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
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 dateyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterUser 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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoNotificationsyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingyeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role based authorization
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CoveoIBM CloudantMilvusNCacheOrigoDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus 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 advantagesHighly 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 scenariosRAG: 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 customersMilvus 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 metricsAs 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 modelsMilvus 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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