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

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orgmilvus.ioquasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGquasardbinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2009201920092015
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen 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 licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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EhcacheMilvusQuasardbsearchxml
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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