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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Ehcache vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.ehcache.orgmilvus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGquasardb
Initial release2018200920192009
Current release0.10, February 20243.10.0, March 20222.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binary
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
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JCacheRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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DuckDBEhcacheMilvusQuasardb
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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