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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbmilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonOpenNMS GroupSiteWhere
Initial release20072019201420052010
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACIDno
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role based access control and fine grained access rightsnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Amazon SimpleDBMilvusNewtsPostGISSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsMilvus 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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