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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score6.50
Rank#56  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.marklogic.commilvus.iowww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.marklogic.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.SADAS s.r.l.ByteDance, originally TerarkVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20012019200620162011
Current release11.0, December 20222.3.4, January 20248.07.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92noyesnono
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 APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
C++ API
Java API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnononono
TriggersyesnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes, with Range Indexesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
MarkLogicMilvusSadas EngineTerarkDBVelocityDB
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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