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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comgeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.commilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Kinetica
Initial release2012200220122019
Current release7.0, November 20231.1, February 20177.1, August 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC, C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafGeodeKineticaMilvus
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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