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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. Riak TS

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.19
Rank#176  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlkairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20182008201320192015
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++, GoErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesVector, 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 indexesyesnononorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in JavanonoErlang
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Apache IoTDBHBaseKairosDBMilvusRiak TS
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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