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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgmilvus.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperCCRi and othersSequoiadb Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162014201920131998
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBGeoMesaMilvusSequoiadbTimesTen
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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