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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2009

2019

2011

2006

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

23.3, December 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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