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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Milvus vs. SiriDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen Source Time Series DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismilvus.iosiridb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonInterSystemsCesbit
Initial release20072018201920172009
Current release2023.3, June 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoCJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple rights management via user accountsno
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Amazon SimpleDBInterSystems IRISMilvusSiriDBTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Milvus 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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