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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.64
Rank#101  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.ioorientdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2010201920102017
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.2.29, March 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, GoJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava, Javascript
TriggersyesnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRoles, resources, and access types
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantMilvusOrientDBRDFox
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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