DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Aerospike vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.10
Rank#59  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeExasolCirconus LLC.Simer Plaha
Initial release20122000201720192018
Current release7.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageCC and C++C++, GoScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsyes, in Luanono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafEXASOLIRONdbMilvusSwayDB
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
» more
Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
» more
Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
» more
Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
» more
Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
» more
RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
» more
Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
» more
Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
» more
Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
» more
As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
» more
Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
» more
News

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

Aerospike Achieves the new AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency
30 November 2023

Aerospike Showcases New Levels of Database Performance, Price, and Sustainability on Graviton3 at AWS re:Invent
28 November 2023

Aerospike Database 7 Delivers Enterprise Resiliency, Scale, and Speed to In-memory Database Workloads
15 November 2023

Aerospike Listed as Sample Vendor in Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Management, 2023
24 October 2023

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafEXASOLIRONdbMilvusSwayDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020,  Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor) 

show all

Vector databases
2 June 2023, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Aerospike raises $109M for its real-time database platform to capitalize on the AI boom
4 April 2024, TechCrunch

Aerospike Raises $109M For Accelerated Database Development, Market Expansion
4 April 2024, CRN

Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database
4 April 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Aerospike set to grow real time database for AI with $109M raise
4 April 2024, VentureBeat

Aerospike raises $114M to fuel database innovation for GenAI
4 April 2024, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
26 February 2024, TechTarget

Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Leads to Business Failure, But Data Challenges Stall Rapid Adoption
20 March 2024, Business Wire

It's Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
26 October 2023, Datanami

Exasol Unveils New Suite of AI Tools to Turbocharge Enterprise Data Analytics
22 February 2024, AiThority

Exasol Reimagines In-Memory Analytics with Major Database Update
30 May 2023, Datanami

provided by Google News

Application observability firm Apica buys telemetry data startup Circonus and adds more funding
21 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Apica Acquires Telemetry Data Management Pioneer Circonus And Lands New Funding
22 February 2024, Datanami

Apica gets $6 million in funding and buys Circonus -
21 February 2024, Enterprise Times

provided by Google News

Zilliz Unveils Game-Changing Features for Vector Search
22 March 2024, Datanami

What Is Milvus Vector Database?
6 October 2023, The New Stack

AI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr
31 January 2024, SitePoint

Milvus 2.4 Unveils Game-Changing Features for Enhanced Vector Search
20 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Zilliz Cloud boosts vector database performance
31 January 2024, InfoWorld

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here