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

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

GeoMesa 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 simplicity

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

milvus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

CCRi and others

Circonus LLC.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2017

2019

2011

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.3.4, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP 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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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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

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