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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineVector DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.commilvus.iowww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore Software
Initial release20102017201920172009
Current release6.0, February 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, 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.noCan index from XMLnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantManticore SearchMilvusTigerGraphTinkerGraph
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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