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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GreptimeDB vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgreptime.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comkairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGeoSpockGreptime Inc.8Kdata
Initial release2022201320192016
Current release2.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptRustJavaC++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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GeoSpockGreptimeDBKairosDBMilvusToroDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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