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DBMS > Dgraph vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Circonus LLC.informationpartners gmbhWakanda SAS
Initial release20162017201920152012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.4.4, May 20241.02.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++, GoC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writerACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
DgraphIRONdbMilvussearchxmlWakandaDB
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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