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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. STSdb

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.OpenNMS GroupSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142017201920142011
Current release4.0.5, February 2024V0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++C++, GoJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
.NET Client 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
JavaC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
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 layernoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnono
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GeoMesaIRONdbMilvusNewtsSTSdb
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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