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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Immudb vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A 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 searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.immudb.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperExasolCodenotaryCirconus LLC.quasardb
Initial release20002020201720192009
Current release1.2.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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EXASOLImmudbIRONdbMilvusQuasardb
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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