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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-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
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmilvus.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCCRi and othersquasardbSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142013201920092011
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.7.6, April 20242.4.4, May 20243.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaGoC++, GoC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binaryyes 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 indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple rights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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GeoMesaInfluxDBMilvusQuasardbSTSdb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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