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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Milvus vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 FlinkA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgmilvus.iorethinkdb.comsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdrethinkdb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20182019200920122018
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.3.4, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono
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Apache IoTDBMilvusRethinkDBSQL.JSSwayDB
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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