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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sqrrl

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsqrrl.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCirconus LLC.PerconaAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20092017201920152012
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuanoJavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenononoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
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EhcacheIRONdbMilvusPercona Server for MongoDBSqrrl
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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