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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. MarkLogic vs. Memcached vs. Milvus

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.memcached.orgmilvus.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.marklogic.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMarkLogic Corp.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20162009200120032019
Current release3.10.0, March 202211.0, December 20221.6.25, March 20242.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++CC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL92nono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JCacheJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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DgraphEhcacheMarkLogicMemcachedMilvus
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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