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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Milvus vs. WakandaDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.commilvus.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcWakanda SAS
Initial release201420172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192012
Current release4.0.5, February 2024V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 20182.3.4, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++qC++, GoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'no
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful 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
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
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.depending on storage layernoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenorights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoMesaIRONdbKdbMilvusWakandaDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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