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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#184	Overall
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#30	Key-value stores

Score	0.37
Rank	#259	Overall
	#17	Search engines

Score	2.77
Rank	#109	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Terark

Initial release

2010

2019

1994

2016

Current release

2.0, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++, Go

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric and String

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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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

Video media : video understanding, video deduplication. E-commerce and mobile applications...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by over 1,000 enterprises, including Baidu, eBay, IKEA, LINE, Shopee,...
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Market metrics

As of March 2022, 9.8k+ GitHub stars 1.4k+ Github forks 871k+ docker pulls 2k+ community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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