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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20102010201920112009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release8.6, January 20232.3.4, January 202423.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, GoJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, Numeric and StringoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesRole based authorization
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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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