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

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

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA 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 storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.ioswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCirconus LLC.Simer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122017201920182011
Current release7.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++, GoScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.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
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes, in Luanonono
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnoneSharding
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/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
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.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafIRONdbMilvusSwayDBVelocityDB
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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