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DBMS > Milvus vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Titan

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitemilvus.iowww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-servergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlachisoftPerconaAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2019200520082012
Current release2.3.4, January 20245.3.3, April 20248.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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MilvusNCachePercona Server for MySQLTitan
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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