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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Milvus vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 metricA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchmilvus.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmterminusdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperElasticRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsDataChemist Ltd.Yandex
Initial release20102019199320182019
Current release8.6, January 20232.3.4, January 20243.4-1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infowith some exceptionsyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesJournaling StreamsActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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, allBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access controlAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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ElasticsearchMilvusOpenQM infoalso called QMTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYDB
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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