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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splunk

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCCRi and othersOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Splunk Inc.
Initial release20142013201919842003
Current release4.0.5, February 20241.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes, on a single nodeno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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 layernoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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GeoMesaKairosDBMilvusOracle RdbSplunk
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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