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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

milvus.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Event Store Limited

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2013

2019

2012

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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