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DBMS > H2 vs. LeanXcale vs. MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. LeanXcale vs. MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. NCache

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Vector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#286  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicmilvus.iowww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerLeanXcaleMarkLogic Corp.Alachisoft
Initial release20052015200120192005
Current release2.2.220, July 202311.0, December 20222.4.4, May 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough Apache Derbyyes infoSQL92noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, with Range Indexesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
H2LeanXcaleMarkLogicMilvusNCache
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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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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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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