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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. SurrealDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. SurrealDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.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 searchesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelEvent StoreTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iosurrealdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsurrealdb.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedCirconus LLC.SurrealDB LtdWakanda SAS
Initial release20122017201920222012
Current release21.2, February 2021V0.10.20, January 20182.4.4, May 2024v1.5.0, May 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoRustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
EventStoreDBIRONdbMilvusSurrealDBWakandaDB
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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