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DBMS > MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Sqrrl vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. Riak KV vs. Sqrrl vs. Titan

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NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Vector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
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Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.marklogic.commilvus.iosqrrl.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.marklogic.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20012019200920122012
Current release11.0, December 20222.3.4, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringnoyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92nononono
APIs and other access methodsJava 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 APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoErlangnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infomaking use of Hadoopyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnonoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, using Riak SecurityCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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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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