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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Blueflood vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Milvus

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comblueflood.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbmilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperArcade DataRackspaceMicrosoft
Initial release20212013201320142019
Current releaseSeptember 20212.7.6, April 20242.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++, Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON typesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptno
TriggersnonoJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionno
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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ArcadeDBBluefloodInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBMilvus
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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